But companies don’t want happier employees. With that title this article will never break out of the echo chamber and reach employers.
Want happier employees? Start with a 32-hour workweek – and 4 weeks vacation.
Submitted 12 hours ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to workreform@lemmy.world
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tauren@lemm.ee 2 hours ago
Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 minutes ago
I worked for an employee owned manufacturing company for near ten years. The philosophy of our company was, “the essence of life is relationships”.
The founder of the company was the only religious person I knew who actually followed it’s teachings, he sold his stock to the company for less than it was worth until we were 100% employee owned. The stock price then shot up from $200 a share to $6k a share in ten years.
The company understood the importance of working ideas from the bottom up, (involving the lowest ranking employees just as much as the highest ranking). We understood the importance of company culture, and even had teams of people to make sure the needs of our employees were being met.
We had a supervisor who by all accounts was a fine supervisor on paper, however he rubbed every single employee the wrong way, he was a cunt if i may. With the support of all of us, we were able to, I don’t want to say get rid of him, it sounds cold, but his name came up on our (truly anonymous) survey one year the company asked him to resign, and he did.
The owner passed away in 2018, and shit got squirrely from there, i left during the pandemic. CEO and highest ranking positions then changed hands to folks not there at the founding of the company, I felt the culture shifting and left due to personal reasons. The stock has since tanked.
I dont understand why these companies don’t see the importance of uplifting their workforce.
I’ll never find and employer like that again i think. It was a magical decade. Of course my stock is tanked now, im to be cashed out this year.
The ladder has been pulled right before my time my whole life so this osnt new. I went from having enough for a down payment on a house, and now i wont even beable to afford a car lmao.
match@pawb.social 3 hours ago
Do companies want happier employees?
lime@feddit.nu 7 hours ago
four weeks? hell no, i’d walk from any interview that attempted to strip two weeks of vacation from me.
TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Want happier employees?
No. American corporations absolutely do not care about how happy their employees are. They only care about maximizing profits, and the best way to do that is to squeeze as much productivity out of their workers while also paying those workers as little as possible.
They know the workers aren’t there to find fucking happiness. Few are so privileged. Most people go to work not because it makes them happy, but because they need the god damn money, to keep a roof over their head and to put food on the dinner table, and as everything gets more expensive, the workers need more and more money, to stave off homelessness and destitution. Happiness, Jesus Christ. What a luxury!
The purpose of capitalism isn’t to make people happy. It’s to make profit for owners. That’s it.
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 11 hours ago
Want happier employees?
No, not really.
- The owner classelvith@feddit.org 7 hours ago
that’s a bit unrealistic. The expected answer is “will this make line go up?”
robador51@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
Want higher productivity? …
FTFY
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 5 hours ago
I just want to say that I work for an amazing boss in the UK as a software developer and a few months ago we all got pay rises and a reduction in hours. We now work 33 hours a week instead of 37.5. We get 4 weeks holiday and an extra day added after each year of work up to a total of 25 days (five weeks).
We can be sick without being moaned at and they truly do put us first and the work second. I’ve had a lot of jobs before I sorted my life out (like 50+) and I swear I have PTSD from the old ones in that I can’t believe how nice my boss is as every other have been for corpos who somehow manage to get some other poor idiot to treat you like shit whilst paying you minimum wage and expecting maximum effort.
You can see that having 50 jobs meant I was not really one to take the bullshit and I would just lose the job for giving them my thoughts.
SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 38 minutes ago
Incredibly relatable.
Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
32hr workweek as a transition period down to 24 or even 20. 4 weeks PTO for new hires or something, add 2 weeks per year up to like 8 or 10, or even 12?
Fuck capitalism.
Wanpieserino@lemm.ee 8 hours ago
That’s how I sounded like before I got married and became a father. Now I want to be CFO instead. Funny how that goes.
Bless capitalism
SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 35 minutes ago
I always wonder why people like this are on here.
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 3 hours ago
Man having a wife and kid made me want to be at home more, not less. I would leap at the opportunity to have 32 hour weeks and tons of vacation. I would even consider going into the office a second day of the week for that.
10001110101@lemm.ee 7 hours ago
If you’re implying you want to spend as much time away from your family as possible, you could just get a divorce. Wouldn’t have to sell all your life to shareholders then.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
You know, you could just talk with your wife and/or find something more worthwhile to do than putting in the maximum physically possible hours at work.
Or just get a divorce, because that’s faster and cheaper than avoiding your family until your wife divorces you and your kids resent you, and has the same end result.
technomad@slrpnk.net 11 hours ago
And also pay us a fucking livable wage that’s been adjusted for inflation and productivity gains over the years for fucks sake.
Wanpieserino@lemm.ee 8 hours ago
How are you alive without having livable wages
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I rely on community support, like most people. That can be your spouse, parents, or government benefits, in addition to things like food donation programs.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 11 hours ago
Want happier employees?
“No.”
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 6 hours ago
“If the have time to be happy, they have time to be more productive! Increase the targets and quotas!”
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
Eh… They’d prefer to double down on the happiness beatings.
queermunist@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
Best I can do is a free slice of pizza for Employee Appreciation Day
nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
You get pizza!? I get a very heartfelt email from our company president
Therobohour@lemmy.world 30 minutes ago
Wait,you guys don’t get that? Shit I’m.here in Northern Ireland and that would be less than standard. That’s what we give teenagers,hell,most teens would not take that deal. When did America start treating the worker so bad? Like 1865?
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 14 minutes ago
America was built on treating the worker badly. Most of the first people that came here were either slaves or indentured servants. Now we have prison slavery and wage servitude.
The only thing that has ever really improved in American labor is actual safety standards for work environments, equipment, etc. We do a great job of prioritizing that. But actual workers are viewed as expendable, and many of the largest employers are just meat grinders even if they offer half-decent benefits. Walmart is a good example of that