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Apparently they are contemplating implementing this! They either want to implement 5-hour workdays or have 8-hour workdays but only 4 days per week, everyone would have 3 days off per week! They already have only 6-hour workdays in France and Sweden and their societies still manage to function, studies are showing people are much happier and more productive when they do this! French people get 6-hour workdays, a mandatory long lunch break, and a mandatory 30 days of paid vacation per year! They are able to do this without their society becoming completely unglued!
 
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I don't think it should be a shock that more work and longer hours aren't a magical formula for productivity. When employees are treated like human beings rather than cogs in a machine they work better because it's hard to be productive when you are emotionally, mentally, and physically exhausted all the time.

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I feel like in my current job, it's unnecessary for me to work any overtime. I have a high production rate on 40-hour weeks anyway. But they make the whole building work overtime, even when it's not needed in some departments.
 
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Dave Darling said:
Apparently they are contemplating implementing this! They either want to implement 5-hour workdays or have 8-hour workdays but only 4 days per week, everyone would have 3 days off per week!
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I'm sure that will do wonders for inflation.

I'm retired now, but when I worked I had to put in many overtime hours. I would have loved to work less hours admittedly. But for some reason I'm reminded of the old saying "Idle hands are the devils playground".
 
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Technology is reducing the need for workers, but needing to feel productive is hard-wired into our genes. At some point the only way that we will be able to have "full" employment is by reducing working hours and lowering retirement age.

When I retired in my sixties, I struggled with the need to feel purposeful. Retirees go through a period of feeling irrelevant that can be very difficult. I continue to do some freelance articles and always have lots of volunteer projects going, many in graphic design and communications, my former career.

I also volunteer as a church musician every Sunday. We are financially comfortable and able to fulfill a purpose without a paycheck.

I do water aerobics at the fitness center every day.

So many younger couples are working long hours and trying to raise children. I think a five-hour workday would be perfect.
 
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Japan is exactly the opposite to this, they nearly work people to death in Japan! Apparently it is considered a grave insult to leave the office before your boss in Japan, if your boss is working late you have to stay and keep working until they are done!
 
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It's pretty well known that Japanese work culture is some of the worst in the industrialized free world. There are people in Japan who talk out about it, but Japanese culture is strongly centered on the collective, rather than the individual. Which is why standing out in Japan is, in virtually any context, considered problematic. While things are changing, from what I've read, particularly among the younger generations; it's slow-moving.

In Japan there are what are known as burakku kigyo, literally "black companies". These amount to little more than deeply exploitative and toxic companies that underpay, manipulate, and can be literally deadly in some cases.

Black company (Japan) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Loved Working production felt Good and so didn't the Bonuses,
couldn't go back to it now as all that did was separate me from the LORD.
Spent every waking hour working for the man and it caused a large chasm to develop between me and the LORD



May The LORD Bless You and Keep You



Shalom Aleichem
 
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