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I've been saying this in response to a lot of things lately, but.. people are emotional. It's an emotional problem. Management feels a way, mostly contempt, and any studies about how treating people better would be cost-effective don't matter. Studies show that a 4-day workweek is good for productivity and profits? Nope, feels wrong, can't be true.
Essentially, people are stupid and I don't know how to fix it. Can't just bop a CEO on the nose with a newspaper when he's being bad, unfortunately.
the solution has been known for over a hundred years and is called unionizing and organizing
That would certainly help with a lot of problems, but won't fix the underlying problem that hinders all of us. That is, that humans often weigh emotions more than they probably should.
Heh, bopping them on the nose with the newspaper would be pretty sick though.
I hope the whole 4 day work week eventually takes off. That would be wonderful. A whole extra day to recharge. Amazing.
You're probably right about it being an emotional issue. It's probably difficult to accept that doing something like that could help produce better results.