2 day work week. Standard hours for a work week are just like the minimum wage. They've been stagnant for decades and haven't adjusted according to company profits and worker productivity increases.
2 days. Why would you ask for 4? That puts you in a shitty bargaining position.
We used to dream that AI would do all the boring stuff so we could pursue our artistic endeavors.
Turns out it's the opposite lol. There will be no days off for us.
The other day for laughs in jira I looked at the suggested issues the AI came up with, and they looked like jargon-laden nonsense. But I could see a future where the upper management do nothing business idiots don't care and just slop up a bunch of tasks and assign those out and call it a day's work.
Everything has become an exercise in cosplaying and pantomiming the thing that's supposed to actually happen, and AI is the thing that'll really keep that train rolling. It's a fucking weapons grade, automated potemkin village creator.
Make sure to use AI to solve the issues flagged by AI.
Human productivity alone warranted a 4-day workweek. With AI benefits added in, we should be going down to 3.
Let's make anything over 32 hours double pay.
I think the plan is that a lot of people get a 0 day work week. That's one of the problems.
Interesting that the article never cites or states how much AI has improved productivity - but rather focuses on the 4-day work week. Kinda strange to only look at the end outcome and ignore the cause of expecting that outcome.
I think that in some domains (for example, software development) one person working 40 hours is significantly more productive than two people working 20 hours each. Coordination adds a lot of overhead. There's also the difficulty of finding a second qualified employee.
But that's all moot anyway. Someone working 4 days is always going to earn less than someone working 5, and I'm pretty sure most Americans would choose to work more and get more money even if they could afford to work only 4. (Especially since positional goods won't become easier to afford.)
I have a 7-hour work day and a 5-day work week. I make less than I did at my previous (8.5-hour/5-day) job, but I'm much, much happier. Highly recommend working less if you can swing it.
I do agree that coordination is a PITA. But, 7 hours is doable and it's not like I'd be actually productive for an extra hour a day. My brain goes to mush.
Some of my coworkers work longer days and take every a day off every other week. As long as they work 70 hours a biweek they're good.
Good luck making a bigger project like that (even a small project).
You are the capitalist society. It is all you vote for. Bernie Sanders is just the limited hangout. You surely don't expect the rest of the world to buy it any more do you?
Let's use technology to benefit workers," Sanders said.
That's Socialist thinking in a Capitalist country. He doesn't own the means of production to change the schedules. In a Capitalist country you need the market power to negotiate for it.
So call for unionizing because the opportunity is there.
~~He doesn't, so it is a distraction.~~
Why you care about the opinion of a guy who took the money and ran twice?
Meme material really.
We gave him the money. Willingly. Because we wanted a better future.
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