Hah. Another study where the results are 100% determined from simply surveying the employees afterwards about how happy/stressed/etc they are.
I'll save you the trouble - You'll get the same result with a 3 day work week for the same pay. The employees will be nice and happy.
You'll even get the same result if you perform the same study with 2 day work weeks.
Heck, employees will report the highest satisfaction possible, lowest stress possible, if you allow them to work 0 days a week while giving them the same pay.
That's it, the science is settled. 0 day work weeks here we come.
If I'm not wrong, productivity is measured as economic output/ hours worked. It seems pretty obvious that when people decide to reduce the hours worked, they will start pruning the less economically rewarding tasks first. How's that old adage: "work expands to fit the time available".
So I would expect that by cutting the hours, the economic output decreases less than proportionally, and therefore productivity grows.
rytill · 2h ago
Can you please explain the insight about reduced workweeks you are deriving from what you've linked? It is not obvious to me.
"But I don't want to cure cancer. I want to turn people into dinosaurs."
Capital owners don't want healthier, more satisfied workers. They want to maximize the surplus labor from which their wealth is built.
Someone will probably come in with "happier workers will be more optimal for that" and maybe I guess but it doesn't seem that way to me. Doesn't seem that way to the owners either or it would already be like that.
We'll need a labor movement to fight for this, just like our predecessors had to fight and sometimes die for things like the weekend and the eight hour workday.
I'll save you the trouble - You'll get the same result with a 3 day work week for the same pay. The employees will be nice and happy.
You'll even get the same result if you perform the same study with 2 day work weeks.
Heck, employees will report the highest satisfaction possible, lowest stress possible, if you allow them to work 0 days a week while giving them the same pay.
That's it, the science is settled. 0 day work weeks here we come.
So I would expect that by cutting the hours, the economic output decreases less than proportionally, and therefore productivity grows.
https://www.4dayweek.com/
https://www.4dayweek.co.uk/
https://workfour.org/
Capital owners don't want healthier, more satisfied workers. They want to maximize the surplus labor from which their wealth is built.
Someone will probably come in with "happier workers will be more optimal for that" and maybe I guess but it doesn't seem that way to me. Doesn't seem that way to the owners either or it would already be like that.
We'll need a labor movement to fight for this, just like our predecessors had to fight and sometimes die for things like the weekend and the eight hour workday.
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