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It’s not just a lack of empathy for the sake of profits, either. We know for a fact that raising hours right now would lead to poorer quality of work and that lowering hours would lead to higher productivity and quality.
They’re just stupid and cruel, that’s all.
Out of interest do you have a link to back that up? Not questioning you, id genuinely like to read up on that.
https://financialpost.com/fp-work/4-day-workweek-fix-burnout-low-productivity#:~:text=Companies%20also%20reap%20the%20benefits,increasing%20by%2022%20per%20cent.
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/teams-become-more-productive-when-their-hours-are-shorter
There are a couple. The basic idea is that burnout is significantly reduced, people have recovery times, less animosity towards management, just all kinds of benefits. We have the technology be so much more efficient in basically any industry and so we don’t need to be there that long even if we could handle it just fine. I could find a way to do my work twice as fast and I’d still be punished for showing up 15min later and you bet that annihilates my desire to do anything more than the bare minimum.
And, importantly, pay does not change. This isn’t a trade-off, it’s a win-win, so if they ever try to say “ok we just won’t pay you for that day” you can say “so I’ll be more productive and paid less? How does that make sense?”