I do fuck all most days. Maybe 2 hrs a day. It wasn’t always like this, I used to work a solid 40hr week, but as I’ve settled into my role, I’ve made vast efficiency improvements. Im not doing less work, Im just very fast at doing it.
There are moments, of course, when some part of a project derails, and then I spend 6 hours straight investigating some weird minor anomaly, but those are getting rarer as I phase out old projects that I inherited.
I don‘t see how smaller shifts at the same pay wouldn‘t work in virtually every industry. What‘s so different about a butcher, carpenter or taxi driver compared to a store clerk who works half time already? In terms of organizing I mean. There isn‘t a professional that isn‘t affected by ever developing automation processes. At least indirectly, but only the rich get to reap it‘s benefits for as long as I live. It‘s time to change that and a universal 30 hour work week is a good start.
If you let your office worker who only works effectively fo 30 hours go after these, instead of having a shitshat coffee for 2 hours every day at the office, you still get the same result.
If you let your butcher go after 30 hours you need to hire another one, because you need a butcher there during opening hours.
I’d even say it was once the natural way. As you got better/faster at a task, you absolutely got more free time and less work fixing mistakes, too.
If members of a hunter/gatherer community got better/faster, they had more time to do other things. That would still be true if money wasn’t the direct goal of all: if a tailor/carpenter/dentist/etc. does a better, more permanent job, they have less work fixing and repairing and get a better reputation.
Only when you manufacture for sheer output and/or your employer’s sole interest is to squeeze maximum value out of you is our relationship to work perverted into the now common “the faster you work, the faster you receive more work.”
Only time I heard about anybody asking for a 4 day work week recently was the GDL strike. So while I agree, it’s probably more of a tech thing, there are blue collar jobs fighting for it.
I do fuck all most days. Maybe 2 hrs a day. It wasn’t always like this, I used to work a solid 40hr week, but as I’ve settled into my role, I’ve made vast efficiency improvements. Im not doing less work, Im just very fast at doing it.
There are moments, of course, when some part of a project derails, and then I spend 6 hours straight investigating some weird minor anomaly, but those are getting rarer as I phase out old projects that I inherited.
Are you in a tech related field? I feel like if I tried that at my butcher job they would assign me even more work.
It’s really only office jobs that get this sort of luxury.
I don‘t see how smaller shifts at the same pay wouldn‘t work in virtually every industry. What‘s so different about a butcher, carpenter or taxi driver compared to a store clerk who works half time already? In terms of organizing I mean. There isn‘t a professional that isn‘t affected by ever developing automation processes. At least indirectly, but only the rich get to reap it‘s benefits for as long as I live. It‘s time to change that and a universal 30 hour work week is a good start.
If you let your office worker who only works effectively fo 30 hours go after these, instead of having a shitshat coffee for 2 hours every day at the office, you still get the same result.
If you let your butcher go after 30 hours you need to hire another one, because you need a butcher there during opening hours.
Indeed.
I’d even say it was once the natural way. As you got better/faster at a task, you absolutely got more free time and less work fixing mistakes, too.
If members of a hunter/gatherer community got better/faster, they had more time to do other things. That would still be true if money wasn’t the direct goal of all: if a tailor/carpenter/dentist/etc. does a better, more permanent job, they have less work fixing and repairing and get a better reputation.
Only when you manufacture for sheer output and/or your employer’s sole interest is to squeeze maximum value out of you is our relationship to work perverted into the now common “the faster you work, the faster you receive more work.”
Only time I heard about anybody asking for a 4 day work week recently was the GDL strike. So while I agree, it’s probably more of a tech thing, there are blue collar jobs fighting for it.