Millennials are exhausted by working more for less.
Millennials are exhausted by working more for less.
Letters: Readers respond to an article about quitting the rat race, with some saying their generation was handed an untenable position and others saying the struggle is nothing new
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Advocate for the 32 hour work week with no drop in pay. Join unions, create unions, call your representatives (and I know most of them are shit).
Convince your peers to advocate for 32 hours as well. There's no reason why most jobs couldn't do that. You'd be astounded at the amount of time wasting that goes on in the defense industry work I do.
Yes. This. 32 hours
I'm a union worker. This year at our union BBQ, the premiere of our province showed up to the Union BBQ. He's a conservative, staunchly anti union, anti worker and pro corporations. I was dismayed that not only was he allowed to attend, but at the amount of my fellow Union members shaking his hand and cheering him. The dude literally wants you to be a wage slave why are you cheering him??
Join unions, create unions
What if we're in one of the sad states that has 'right to work' laws?
For those unaware, 'right to work' laws at exactly the opposite of how they sound. They outlaw (or at least restrict) union presence in their state, you know, so employers don't have to deal with unions and can therefore do what they want with their labor force.
We can have 32 hour workweeks at my job… if we choose to give up pay on Fridays. True story. 😭
If less is being built, how will this help you to have less spending power?
Why would less be built?
He probably thinks a 32-hour week means jobsites just close down entirely.
Studies have shown that total productivity goes up if we work eight less hours. Those last eight hours lower economic output.
Most jobs no it doesn't. Everyone would be doing it and splitting the difference if it did. Good luck with that one.
You'd be surprised how long people will keep doing dumb shit just because it's the way it was always done. Here's the pilot program, FYI
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/21/1158507132/uk-study-companies-four-day-workweek
It would be done in a second if there was value to it. Especially large companies as often there are bonuses based on profits. Or do you actually think directors and CEOs would rather make less personal income?
It is goofy that people actually think productivity would remain the same when working far less hours and believe the same number of houses (or insert any product here) would be built. Or that a pilot test would remain accurate if the people involved in it did not know it was a simple experiment. Tell me if those companies that experienced more productivity, why did they not continue to implement it?
Tell me if those companies that experienced more productivity, why did they not continue to implement it?
they did. 80% of them did exactly that!
it works exactly as expected, and the companies that did switch to a 32h-week model did see increased productivity, and 80% chose to keep the 32h-week model.
read the study.
I did. Who are there companies?