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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

Okay i agree now what

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

This is just my personal opinion and I know the hyper liberal lemmy will hate it but based on the current economic structure, a 4 day work week and extra vacation weeks would probably cost me more money than just working.

While I’m at work I eat less food, use less utilities and stuff like that. Being home more causes me to spend money that I don’t have. I’m already living paycheck to paycheck working 5 days and barely eating. Having to eat 2-3 meals an extra day per week would be too expensive. An extra day off would just make me get a second job.

We need to pay people a liveable wage before we can talk about more pto.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Sad to know you have such a case. But yes, this has to be addressed alongside.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

32 hour workweeks AND lower the overtime threshold to match. And that's just using my office job as a basis.

The threshold from part-time to full-time will also need to be lowered accordingly for grocery store/fast food type jobs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Don't forget keeping yearly salary the same.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

No matter how valid the premise is, that headline kills this article. It should say, "Want More Productivity? Start with yada yada..."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

I would literally take a life for that work balance.

40-50hrs a week isn't a life worth living

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Ikr. I can't even find time to go to gym cuz of commute. That alone just drains whatever energy I had left from the day and so I just scrap by with the few things I can do later in the evening. Sucks man.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 14 hours ago

Start paying people enough that they can actually live instead of struggling just to keep their heads above water.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Your premise is flawed in the first sentence - "Want happier employees?" No American employer cares about that in the least. Being happy at being allowed to keep their job and keep showing up to collect your meager pay is about all you can expect.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

came in to comment effectively this., but you phrased it better than I would have.

"But happy employees naturally work harder" yeah, but so do desperate employees, and that also satisfies corpo desire for abusable slaves.

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