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We should all be working a four-day workweek
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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:09 AM Author: Maize native Everyone wastes so much time at work, things would be so much better if we had a four-day workweek. France also saw efficiency gains when they went to a 35 hour workweek.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/world/asia/four-day-workweek-new-zealand.html
A New Zealand firm that let its employees work four days a week while being paid for five says the experiment was so successful that it hoped to make the change permanent.
The firm, Perpetual Guardian, which manages trusts, wills and estates, found the change actually boosted productivity among its 240 employees, |
Date: July 20th, 2018 11:10 AM Author: Cheese-eating Cruise Ship Tattoo Absolutely credited (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36465064) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:17 AM Author: Laughsome base halford GC giggles (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36465092) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:18 AM Author: Maize native (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36465095) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:19 AM Author: Talented Pozpig Circlehead CR. OP's wife makes more in her 2-day workweek than he does in his 5-day (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36465099) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:26 AM Author: Maize native She doesn't have a normal job (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36465145) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:51 AM Author: Talented Pozpig Circlehead And yet she makes more in her 2 day workweek than you in 5. Funny that (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36465303) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:52 AM Author: sick bawdyhouse kitty what's your point? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36465314) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:53 AM Author: Talented Pozpig Circlehead OP is a housepet. Say, how are the oil mines going, boogie down? You doing alright? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36465319) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:54 AM Author: sick bawdyhouse kitty lol u insane freak (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36465322) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:55 AM Author: Maize native (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36465333) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 1:03 PM Author: Talented Pozpig Circlehead Lol if u think bumping boogie down posts helps your cause here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36465753) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 2:05 PM Author: Maize native I support his view that you are a mentally ill freak (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36466168) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 2:06 PM Author: sick bawdyhouse kitty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36466172) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 2:07 PM Author: confused cobalt theater dysfunction (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36466179) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 2:10 PM Author: Talented Pozpig Circlehead LOL at shitlib boogie down and housepet TC giving each other reach-arounds ITT. Should I just avoid mentioning how you tolerate unending abuse from your wife because she's the earner in the house? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36466198) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:19 AM Author: sick bawdyhouse kitty They can call it a three day week if they want, but it's meaningless if my employer expects me to be responsive to email 24/7 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36465102) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:20 AM Author: Drunken Disturbing Toaster hehe (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36465111) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:22 AM Author: Maize native (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36465125) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:20 AM Author: metal spot will never happen
threatens the "system" |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:25 AM Author: Nofapping piazza legend But important business people want to pester you about their license agreements on Friday. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36465139) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:29 AM Author: Passionate glassy coffee pot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36465162) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:30 AM Author: startled azure philosopher-king black woman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36465165) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:25 AM Author: Maize native Has any prediction been more off the mark than Keyne's idea that we would all be working 15 hour weeks? I hope Norway or somewhere else shows this is possible.
https://www.ft.com/content/be46f8f4-97b0-11e6-a1dc-bdf38d484582
Despite the cloud of angst Norway seems to be living under (“Norway’s oil wealth swamps innovation”, October 20), by cleverly managing its oil wealth the country might in fact be the first to have solved what John Maynard Keynes, in a 1930 lecture entitled “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren”, referred to as “the economic problem”, and could now concentrate “for the first time since creation [on] the real permanent problem — how to use freedom from pressing cares, how to occupy the leisure, which science and compound interest will have won [for them], to live wisely and agreeably and well”.
The Norwegians are on course to achieving, by 2030, the 15-hour workweek Keynes predicted for well-managed economies. Norway, despite its harsh climate and relative geographical isolation, is a winner when compared with other natural resource-endowed countries such as Nigeria and Venezuela because it developed the appropriate institutions, adopted the discipline of thinking long-term and focused its social policies on creating and nurturing human capital.
With some modest support from central bankers, Norway will succeed even if its oil resources are exhausted or the demand for oil declines because of the most powerful force in the universe, compound interest!
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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:30 AM Author: startled azure philosopher-king black woman Will never happen in jewmerica (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36465168) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:58 AM Author: Milky gas station only works if my clients do this also (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36465346) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 12:00 PM Author: Maize native That is what I am saying - Friday should be part of a three-day weekend for everyone. There is no reason we can't squeeze our workweek into four days instead of five. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36465351) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 12:01 PM Author: Milky gas station Agree. And if we do less so be it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36465358) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 12:02 PM Author: pink unholy meetinghouse nowag Wouldn’t this shrink our GDP? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36465363) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 12:19 PM Author: Milky gas station I think it probably would, but not everyone does (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36465455) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 12:02 PM Author: razzmatazz shivering feces If America did this we would work longer days M-Th and get paid less. GC would find a way to make us all get side hustles since we have an extra day free. Services like childcare would charge extra for Fridays and the COL would go up. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36465365) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 12:10 PM Author: Maize native There are always going to be trade offs. But 52 extra days off a year make it worth it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36465403) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 12:14 PM Author: sticky internet-worthy library pistol Yea, there is legit no reason work 5 days. I took a raise and just started working 6 hours a day and 4 on Friday. FaceTime is just a joke and so is fraud $ we all kill ourselves for (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36465422) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 12:15 PM Author: Maize native (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36465431) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 12:53 PM Author: startled azure philosopher-king black woman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36465693) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 12:19 PM Author: Provocative Plaza Personal Credit Line This should happen. GC has to give something back at some point. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36465453) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 12:31 PM Author: Maize native Let's stop pretending we can't fit in the entire workweek in four days. The modern workweek is a massive waste of time.
Most Salaried Employees Only Do About 3 Hours of Real Work Each Day, Even if they are in the office 10 hours |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 12:52 PM Author: pink unholy meetinghouse nowag This includes all random bullshit office jobs though. It’s probably much higher for prestigious white collar jobs (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36465684) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 12:56 PM Author: sick bawdyhouse kitty This wouldn't be true for lawyers if clients just started demanding fixed fees for everything. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36465709) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 1:00 PM Author: excitant multi-billionaire yet associates work for "fixed fees" and bill like lunatics. odd case (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36465738) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 1:07 PM Author: pink unholy meetinghouse nowag A lot of my matters are fixed fee assignments and it doesn’t seem to make a difference (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36465776) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 1:08 PM Author: sick bawdyhouse kitty It's made a big difference in my area (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36465786) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 1:41 PM Author: Maize native True, but there is still a lot of wasted time (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36465978) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 2:13 PM Author: Provocative Plaza Personal Credit Line lolno (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36466215) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 1:03 PM Author: Gay crotch facetime exists largely because boomer males hate their wives and families so they need people in the office to keep them company while they hide out (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36465750) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 1:40 PM Author: Maize native (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36465972) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 2:12 PM Author: Puce supple patrolman school cafeteria Mfcr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030946&forum_id=2#36466209) |