this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2023
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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Who knew that working people less means they have time to have kids?

[–] Xenon 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It's always amazing to see study after study confirming totally obvious relationships yet policy makers and corporations still choose to ignore all of it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Who cares that they will have 20% fewer workers in 2+ decades when you could have 2% more profit this year?

[–] Jubi 4 points 2 years ago

And yet corporations rely heavily on their shill research study findings to advertise

[–] marche_ck 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

After millenia of human civilization, it took Big Data and AI to finally lead us to this answer/s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It really wouldn't be an issue if workplace sex was easily possible. If you spend the whole day there you might at least multitask and make new workers while inputting data into Excel.

[–] marche_ck 2 points 2 years ago

Office sex DOES exist, but only accessible by the higher echelons of corporate management ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[–] Tolstoshev 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hoping Japan is paying attention

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Well considering I saw another post talking about investing in AI and UBI, one can hope.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Haven't they just increased max working hours?

[–] randon31415 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The 69 hours a week bill got defeated. Apparently someone suggested 69 as a way of getting more babies, and the PM was like "hours of work a week? Deal!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I hope you're not joking, that's hilarious

[–] randon31415 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That the bill got defeated, and that the cap was 69 hours of work is true. Sadly, the rest was a joke.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I feared so