World’s largest four-day work week trial finds few are going back

https://www.veronmaksajat.fi/luvut/Laskelmat/Palkansaajan-ve... The lower tax bracket of 38kEur give a margin tax of a whopping 49,5% and it gets progressively worse after that.

If said populations voters in general think otherwise and its viable to execute, then yes. If not, then no.

The point has very little to do with 40-hour work weeks and almost everything to do with the lack of policy reflecting reasonably implementable wants and needs of the population at large (again, while not trampling on human rights of minorities).

The reason you see Americans hating on America is because they're unhappy in some way shape or form. Looking at those complaints externally, one might be inclined to dismiss those complaints because the situation is better than other locations relatively speaking in some respect from outside looking in. Ultimately, that doesn't negate the unhappiness of those complaining or a failure of a system designed specifically to address those shared views and frustrations through policy. It's possible for some things to appear "better" from the outside relative to another basis and still be undesirable by the population at large.

I'm not well versed in labor rights in every country but in the US its not great, I can assure you. If you're comparing it to Somalia, it's probably amazing. That doesn't mean it can't be better in the US. Americans are often comparing America to itself and usually in a historic context: are things getting better or worse? We want to see progress, improvement in our lives or at least stability. That's of course not always possible because reality sinks in. When the pandemic hit, it wasn't a situation we could just "policy away" a viral infection without tradeoffs (social distancing, isolation, etc. were policy based but had ramifications on people's lives).

I had a colleague from India who shared this frustration, they came from poverty in their country and moved into a high paying tech position here and would often bring up the same point that while so many complain in the US, "its better than many places." That point isn't invalid but that doesn't dismiss the desire to make it even better here, especially if it's possible and it's not the case of simple power imbalances. I came from poverty in the US. Maybe my poverty wasn't as bad as his poverty as a basis of comparison? Does the comparison really matter? We both want enjoyable happy present and future lives, let's focus on that instead of "who had/has it worse" and not use the worst to set the bar of progress.

So, whether or not the situation is worse somewhere else doesn't invalidate frustration unless you are against progress for a population in general.

Yet they lost most of their top advertisers, have cut APIs since they broke, had multiple significant outages, had it's value more than cut in half by investment firms, took on massive debt, is failing to pay basic bills in many countries including the US, has a CEO that got upset that his tweets were not the most popular so installed a special exemption for himself to push his tweets and his alone to users flooding them so badly he had to tune it down.....

Yeah, it's going great.

Key thing being, if your standup is a large proportion of the time you spend closing those feedback loops, it's likely your standups are much to long or your one on one follow-up may be on the low side. But there are also all kinds of exceptions - a team of very senior people who know each other can often do with less, for example.

Lest you think I like meetings, one of the most effective "meeting killers" I put in place at a past team was a weekly report where I got HR to give me average salary numbers across the different job functions and added up the salary cost per work item, with meetings broken out.

The number of meetings plummeted when people saw the opportunity cost in dollars as a proportion of salaries to put a dozen engineers in a room for an hour. I absolutely loathe pointless meetings. But it's important to be aware of what function a given meeting actually serves before deciding whether or not it's pointless.