How about not having working hours and just getting the job done. Like before Ford invented the 9 to 5.
this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2023
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This, Flexi time for the win. As long as I do seven hours a day, why does it matter what hours they are.
But how will the boss know you're working if the only evidence is that all the work is getting done?
For salaried jobs, sure. But the likes of ford would be looking at hourly workers. Where your job involves working with other people. Such environments always needed working hours. But nowadays, few have anything close to 9-5. Even retail tends not to be any more.
But more importantly. Moving away from hour in any lower paid job. Is just creating more opportunity for corporations to rip staff off. It is already way to common for corps to find ways to not pay for the odd bits of time worked.
I thought they meant 6pm-2am for a second there and was going to riot.
Counterpoint to all this anyway: my office has airconditioning, and my house doesn't. If I've got to be somewhere during the heat of midday, I might aswell be there. Commuting back home at 2pm in the worst of the heat sounds like a nightmare.
Fuck that like, I am not a morning person at all.
I thought hottest part was about 12-3 maybe we need more Spanish hours
hard agree on the siesta idea but instead of 12-3 I'd say stop work at 3-6 instead, or work mornings and evenings (with lots of time in between)
in summer, the hottest part of the day can be 4-6pm (because there's a big lag between the sunniest part of the day and the ground heating up, which then heats the air) - also Spain has a weird timezone (GMT+2 despite being west of us, so their sunrise was 5 mins earlier than ours, but was at 7am local time, and ours was at 5:05am)
Makes sense if it carries on getting warmer. And it will.
In the Army we used to work those hours in the summer in Germany. That was back in the 80s.
Can't see why we don't do it now.
How does it work for parents with kids at school? I guess the schools would have to start just as early.
Yes. Like they do abroad.
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