A lot of companies have seen increased productivity and lower expenses by switching to a 4 day work week. It’s not about money, it’s about control. If it were about money these companies would be jumping at the opportunity to let employees work from home. Just think of how much money they could save in office rent alone, not to mention things like electric and water bills, internet, maintenance employees, janitors, etc. Letting people work from home could increase profits by eliminating a major expense.
But they’re fighting tooth and nail against both WFH and the 4 day work week.
You dramatically overestimate how much of a fuck they give about you if you seriously think they’re passing up increased profits purely because they feel some villainous need to exert extra control over your life. They do not care about you. They do not care about their workers. They do not care about the consumer.
The only thing they give a shit about is their profits and how to maximize them.
We constantly hear them going off about how people with WFH aren’t working as hard, if at all. There are always wealthy fucks throwing shade at the 4 day work week as nothing but worker greed. They never believe the studies, because we’re living in an age where fucks like that will gladly ignore solid research and documented studies because they “feel” like it’s wrong.
And really, which is actually easier to believe? That some old fart who thinks his workers are all slackers anyway thinks that letting them work unsupervised at home will let them just do the bare minimum amount of work? Or some cabal of C-suite executives forgoing their own pay raise and bonus because they hate the idea that you might be comfortable while you work?
A big reason for the 40 hr week (and the main barrier to Universal Basic Income, although advocates deny it) is that the ruling class need people to simply be occupied and doing something.
If lots of people have lots of free time, they get all sorts of ideas about how society should be, and start protesting and stuff .
A lot of companies have seen increased productivity and lower expenses by switching to a 4 day work week. It’s not about money, it’s about control. If it were about money these companies would be jumping at the opportunity to let employees work from home. Just think of how much money they could save in office rent alone, not to mention things like electric and water bills, internet, maintenance employees, janitors, etc. Letting people work from home could increase profits by eliminating a major expense.
But they’re fighting tooth and nail against both WFH and the 4 day work week.
You dramatically overestimate how much of a fuck they give about you if you seriously think they’re passing up increased profits purely because they feel some villainous need to exert extra control over your life. They do not care about you. They do not care about their workers. They do not care about the consumer.
The only thing they give a shit about is their profits and how to maximize them.
We constantly hear them going off about how people with WFH aren’t working as hard, if at all. There are always wealthy fucks throwing shade at the 4 day work week as nothing but worker greed. They never believe the studies, because we’re living in an age where fucks like that will gladly ignore solid research and documented studies because they “feel” like it’s wrong.
And really, which is actually easier to believe? That some old fart who thinks his workers are all slackers anyway thinks that letting them work unsupervised at home will let them just do the bare minimum amount of work? Or some cabal of C-suite executives forgoing their own pay raise and bonus because they hate the idea that you might be comfortable while you work?
Well yes and no.
A big reason for the 40 hr week (and the main barrier to Universal Basic Income, although advocates deny it) is that the ruling class need people to simply be occupied and doing something.
If lots of people have lots of free time, they get all sorts of ideas about how society should be, and start protesting and stuff .
Can’t have that .