Greece introduces the six day work week
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Re: Greece introduces the six day work week
#26 days used to be normal generations ago, and still is in many parts of the world. Perhaps we're just in a golden age that's about to end.
Re: Greece introduces the six day work week
#36 days used to be normal generations ago, and still is in many parts of the world. Perhaps we're just in a golden age that's about to end.
I wonder what was all the progress in automation about then, just making a few capitalists richer while we regress to "generations ago"?
The luddites don't sound so crazy anymore these days.
Re: Greece introduces the six day work week
#46 days used to be normal generations ago, and still is in many parts of the world. Perhaps we're just in a golden age that's about to end.
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Re: Greece introduces the six day work week
#56 days used to be normal generations ago, and still is in many parts of the world. Perhaps we're just in a golden age that's about to end.
…or maybe not? Britain's biggest union demands a four day week:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/06/21/ftse-100-ret...
Re: Greece introduces the six day work week
#66 days used to be normal generations ago, and still is in many parts of the world. Perhaps we're just in a golden age that's about to end.
Funny how not that long ago everyone used to predict that with the increases of productivity worldwide we'll keep reducing our workload to a point where we'll work just few hours a week and remain just as productive. And it seems that this has happened for a select few but everyone else is working more and more just to afford rent and basic necessities.
Re: Greece introduces the six day work week
#7Two things happen at the same time:
1. people say that robots are taking all the jobs
2. countries raise retirement age & adopt 6 day work week, because there's too much work to be done
I am not entirely sure, but maybe robots are not that bad, assuming appropriate taxation to fund pensions & 5-day work weeks?
Re: Greece introduces the six day work week
#86 days used to be normal generations ago, and still is in many parts of the world. Perhaps we're just in a golden age that's about to end.
Productivity has increased substantially over the past few generations. Longer working time just captures more of that productivity for the benefit of the employer. This is a continuation of another trend over the past generations, to have increased productivity over a much larger segment of the population (more women joined the workforce) and yet the benefits of this were mostly captured by the employers, at least in the countries where this was more thoroughly documented and didn’t suffer any upheaval or regime changes to influence the numbers (e.g. the US).
Re: Greece introduces the six day work week
#9Two things happen at the same time: 1. people say that robots are taking all the jobs 2. countries raise retirement age & adopt 6 day work week, because there's too much work to be done I am not entirely sure, but maybe robots are not that bad, assuming appropriate taxation to fund pensions & 5-day work weeks?
No amount of automation has ever seemed to result in a net reduction in work to do thus far
Re: Greece introduces the six day work week
#10Two things happen at the same time: 1. people say that robots are taking all the jobs 2. countries raise retirement age & adopt 6 day work week, because there's too much work to be done I am not entirely sure, but maybe robots are not that bad, assuming appropriate taxation to fund pensions & 5-day work weeks?
3. Greece's unemployment rate is almost 11%.
What a bizarre situation.