Anonymous ID: 0b3e6d Feb. 2, 2019, 9:11 a.m. No.5002613   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

A new angle to make the governemnt "workers" have more time off with the same pay. There is no way private sector business can do this. Not without some government mandate.

This article is from the UK, but just another camels nose under the tent type of bullshit.

 

"The think tank Autonomy have published a report detailing how shortening the working week from five days to four could be beneficial for the UKโ€™s exhausted workforce, for employers and for the economy as a whole. Our current model of work relies on a toxic mix of over-work and under employment โ€“ where many are slogging through eighty hour work weeks, with others on precarious zero-hours contracts. And this is without counting the millions of hours of unpaid domestic and care work โ€“ performed largely by women โ€“ on which the economy depends. Politicians have reliably responded to crises of employment by slashing wages and putting more power in the hands of bosses to hire and fire at will. But in reality, this offers little hope of returning a better quality of life to working people, the countryโ€™s real wealth-creators. And absolutely no hope of responding to the larger structural crises our economy is facing; from climate crisis to ."

 

https://www.redpepper.org.uk/less-work-more-play-a-solution-to-britains-economic-woes/