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Samsung shifts executives to six-day workweeks to 'inject a sense of crisis'

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Re: Samsung shifts executives to six-day workweeks to 'inject a sense of crisis'

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Post by wiseowise »

simfree wrote: post #15
mathverse wrote: post #9

I hate Koreans for doing this to other Koreans. I will never ever get over how koreans basically turned the whole country into hell joseon and there is no escape. Korea would be a much better place if they allowed themselves some slack.

A small country that effectively operates as an island with angry nuclear-armed neighbors and no natural resources has figured out how to survive in the world through the skills nurtured within its own people. South Korea doesn't have the privileges that Canada and Finland both have of friendly adjacent neighbors and natural resources, which provide opportunities when Nortel and Nokia respectively stopped succeeding…

Finland has Russia as a neighbor.

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Post by enra »

simfree wrote: post #15
mathverse wrote: post #9

I hate Koreans for doing this to other Koreans. I will never ever get over how koreans basically turned the whole country into hell joseon and there is no escape. Korea would be a much better place if they allowed themselves some slack.

A small country that effectively operates as an island with angry nuclear-armed neighbors and no natural resources has figured out how to survive in the world through the skills nurtured within its own people. South Korea doesn't have the privileges that Canada and Finland both have of friendly adjacent neighbors and natural resources, which provide opportunities when Nortel and Nokia respectively stopped succeeding…

Finland’s largest land border by far is with Russia which is not generally viewed as that of a friendly neighbor.

The border between Finland and Russia is 1,340 kilometers (832 miles). The border between South Korea and North Korea about 250 kilometers (155 miles). Also 5.5M people vs 55M people.

Re: Samsung shifts executives to six-day workweeks to 'inject a sense of crisis'

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Post by kombookcha »

pavlov wrote: post #5

Similar to what Musk did at Twitter with his “extremely hardcore” directive. Maybe we’ll soon see Samsung executives post pictures of how they’re sleeping under their office desks on a Saturday night, like happened at Twitter. The manager who posted those pictures was laid off from Twitter anyway a few months later. Performative crisis mode probably isn’t very useful to anyone.

It feels like corporate cargo cult behaviour to me. If everyone makes the right theatrical gestures at working super hard, productivity must go up right? Or not.

Maybe it will appease the gods of the stock market for a while.

Re: Samsung shifts executives to six-day workweeks to 'inject a sense of crisis'

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Post by jack_riminton »

kombookcha wrote: post #24
pavlov wrote: post #5

Similar to what Musk did at Twitter with his “extremely hardcore” directive. Maybe we’ll soon see Samsung executives post pictures of how they’re sleeping under their office desks on a Saturday night, like happened at Twitter. The manager who posted those pictures was laid off from Twitter anyway a few months later. Performative crisis mode probably isn’t very useful to anyone.

It feels like corporate cargo cult behaviour to me. If everyone makes the right theatrical gestures at working super hard, productivity must go up right? Or not. Maybe it will appease the gods of the stock market for a while.

It certainly makes it easier to fire people, which may be the whole point here

Re: Samsung shifts executives to six-day workweeks to 'inject a sense of crisis'

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Post by DDiggler »

simfree wrote: post #15
mathverse wrote: post #9

I hate Koreans for doing this to other Koreans. I will never ever get over how koreans basically turned the whole country into hell joseon and there is no escape. Korea would be a much better place if they allowed themselves some slack.

A small country that effectively operates as an island with angry nuclear-armed neighbors and no natural resources has figured out how to survive in the world through the skills nurtured within its own people. South Korea doesn't have the privileges that Canada and Finland both have of friendly adjacent neighbors and natural resources, which provide opportunities when Nortel and Nokia respectively stopped succeeding…

>friendly adjacent neighbors

As a Finn I laughed out loud.

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Post by mathverse »

simfree wrote: post #15
mathverse wrote: post #9

I hate Koreans for doing this to other Koreans. I will never ever get over how koreans basically turned the whole country into hell joseon and there is no escape. Korea would be a much better place if they allowed themselves some slack.

A small country that effectively operates as an island with angry nuclear-armed neighbors and no natural resources has figured out how to survive in the world through the skills nurtured within its own people. South Korea doesn't have the privileges that Canada and Finland both have of friendly adjacent neighbors and natural resources, which provide opportunities when Nortel and Nokia respectively stopped succeeding…

Koreans believe they can brute force their way to success but during the last 10year these policies have been failing them.

It does not help that they are naturally fatalists so its always all or nothing scenario.

Re: Samsung shifts executives to six-day workweeks to 'inject a sense of crisis'

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Post by distances »

simfree wrote: post #15
mathverse wrote: post #9

I hate Koreans for doing this to other Koreans. I will never ever get over how koreans basically turned the whole country into hell joseon and there is no escape. Korea would be a much better place if they allowed themselves some slack.

A small country that effectively operates as an island with angry nuclear-armed neighbors and no natural resources has figured out how to survive in the world through the skills nurtured within its own people. South Korea doesn't have the privileges that Canada and Finland both have of friendly adjacent neighbors and natural resources, which provide opportunities when Nortel and Nokia respectively stopped succeeding…

Finland has very few natural resources, mainly just forests. And the forestry industry experienced a major decline around the same time as Nokia did.

And there is a long border with Russia, one of the worst neighbours any country could have.

Re: Samsung shifts executives to six-day workweeks to 'inject a sense of crisis'

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Post by blackeyeblitzar »

Executives are often always working as the job can be demanding, but I think it is a real step backwards to make that the culture of the whole company. People need to be able to live their private lives, outside of working. And in creative work, productivity won’t increase with more hours - at best you can pull off a short term increase like if you’re getting ready to ship something. But beyond that, it’s counterproductive and naive leaders may end up rewarding people who make their extra hours visible over people who actually add value.
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