Increased productivity and improved staff wellbeing were among the results of a year-long trial of the four-day week by the Scottish government.
Staff at the two organisations reported less work-related stress and greater satisfaction with their jobs and work-life balance.
Almost all workers (98%) at SOSE believed the four-day week trial improved motivation and morale, while there was a decrease in workers taking time off sick and a 25% fall in those taking sick days for psychological reasons.
Now watch them still not implement it. Our overlords demand we toil in misery.
They’d rather keep us blind to our place in the world than see us healthy and productive
Meanwhile the US is turning everyone into slave labor….haha, who am I kidding? Slaves.
But the people in positions to make it happen don’t give a crap about staff wellbeing, just that they’re getting their money’s worth of you (even if it DOES improve productivity - they’ll ask you why you can’t be even MORE productive with an extra day).
Yet the Nerd-reich wants to bring back feudalism.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-tech-authoritarianism
So far, this is the most prescient comment to me. If the low-rate dictator currently running the US allows people like Thiel to do whatever they want, that’s probably where we are headed.
Also, props for “Nerd-reich”
Wish I could take credit, but it’s from a podcast/news site and not even sure they coined it: https://www.thenerdreich.com/
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DUH!
