Iceland’s economy is outperforming most European peers after the nationwide introduction of a shorter working week with no loss in pay, according to research released Friday.
It’s not about productivity, it’s about compliance. The modern corporate world is constructed to preserve power structures, not to be efficient.
I’ve also got a four day work week because my job is awesome, and I love it
I’ve got a zero day work week because I don’t have a job.
Yay me.
Bro! Are you looking?
Considering how sick I am, I don’t think that’s advisable.
That’s why I’m not working in the first place.
If posting on Lemmy was a job…
If posting on Lemmy wasn’t the only way for me to have a regular social life…
You should give VRChat a try. Amazing social platform once you find other adults.
Gotta say, as much as i will bitch about my job, my work week is only 4 days as well. Because of the way our schedule is laid out, I have about 1 week straight off each month. If I time my vacations right, that extends to 2 weeks. Next month, I’m spending a week in Canada, but I’ll actually be off for half the month.
Can I become a famous economist who goes on the news circuit if I just take the Laffer curve and change the axes to ‘work hours in a week’ and ‘actual productivity’?
Between 2020 and 2022, 51% of workers in the country had accepted the offer of shorter working hours, including a four-day week, two think tanks found, saying the figure is likely to be even higher today.
I feel like a Think Tank should be like a giant Bacta tank, that mentally links everyone inside.
Old World Blues basically made the metaphor literal.
IIRC, the main… antagonists? idiot people who think they are geniuses? … they are literally brains, in tanks, hooked up to computers or transplanted into robots…
And the actual name of the building they live in is ‘The Think Tank’.
https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/The_Think_Tank
If you’ve never played New Vegas or Old World Blues…I highly recommend it. Legitimately some of the funniest writing, dialogue options, and absurd situations I’ve seen in a game.
I always wonder what “no reduction in pay” means. Do they refer to monthly compensation or hourly rates?
Annual gross wages
You get paid for four days what you used to get paid for five.
