A better and more accurate title: “4-day week, WFH roll-outs in Asia to solve fuel crisis caused by Iran War”.
a better title should be include the word "consider" because in tfa japan and korea for example are not implementing that just yet...
Asian governments roll out 4-day weeks, WFH to solve fuel crisis caused by war
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#332Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm introverted but very glad I have the option of working from the office and being among fellow staff, we also have a lunchtime exercise club once a week. It's much better for my mental health. In fact, I've added two days working outside of home instead of one because of the benefits. I think 3 days home/2 days office is the sweet spot.
We've been slowly creeping back toward being fully RTO, and my mental health has been in what I can only describe as "steep decline". I don't know if I pin it all on RTO, but it sure isn't helping the situation. I love my job, but hate the in-office requirements - I'm a systems admin.
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#333I've long said that WFH is an easy win climate change solution that costs nothing, is well loved by everyone who participates (except management). Turns out in times like this, it's also an energy security measure.
We may never know which sector of the economy you are in to believe WFH is a good idea unless you explicitly state it but given this is HN, I'm just going to make a lazy assumption for software dev or engineering. WFH sounds great in theory only if _everyone_ participates in it but is hardly the case in reality.
For example: If you can sustainably and reliably source your daily necessities like having the ability to cook or maintain a decent home environment that support it, kudos. Thought the covid lockdowns showed us how fragile that system can be especially for those _essential people_ to be physically around to feed you or keep your shit running.
As a side note: how do you feel about being snookered by your local government's policy under the pretext that _essential work_ just gives your employers the ability to maintain the same minimum wage labor cycle just so you can feel giddy about how good this idea is?
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#334In my company, customer service and finance departments still have work-from-home options carried over from 2020. Most use it to take two workdays a week to avoid the commute. I notice the difference in rush-hour traffic; my location is in a dead-end road with only one way in and out.
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#335It's too bad that countries only consider things like this to address a crisis in fuel costs. Why not enact measures like this to curb the pollution and CO2? I guess it says a lot about what humanity truly values.
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Ah yes, because economics and resource allocation are already perfectly optimal and balanced, and it is against the physical laws of the universe to raise quality of life via any other methodology
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#336Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can't expect Western media to write well. I saw a funnt reel today. It's Italy to Americans but Eye-ran and Eye-raq...
There's no reason for Italy and Iran/Iraq to be pronounced similarly. (Cf Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Idaho?) But FWIW, the EYE-rack thing is because GWB (most prominently, but others before and after) intentionally mispronounced the name of the country, in a "real american" kind of way, and also to annoy SAD-dumb Hussein as a kind of "we're stupid but we're going to kill you anyway" kind of psyop. Or maybe just "we dis…
Well, the rest of the world calls Italy as eetaly. Iran as eeran and Iraq as eeraq
It's interesting that Idaho is spoken as Eye-Dahoe. So maybe its a regional thing and not whatever the reel was purporting it to be
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"Leave the petro-billionaires alone!" Seems to be the driving force Imagine if the world had aggressively invested in renewables at any time in the past ten years!
Cheap and efficient solar power didn't seem to require any actual breakthroughs or real investment. Maybe better power electronics for inverters and things? Batteries are a real issue but storage could have been totally ignored for a while. So, maybe when Carter put those (thermal) solar collectors on the White House we should have thrown a hundred billion dollars at solar panel work and had abundant solar power deca…
Politicians only think of their donors. Every country has an oligarchy who controls oil and gas. So for their wealth, we all have to suffer.
South Asia is suffering like anything right now. There is an cooking gas shortage. In some countries there is a petrol shortage.
But nobody will learn lessons from this crisis and focus to switch to renewables within a decade.
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#338I've long said that WFH is an easy win climate change solution that costs nothing, is well loved by everyone who participates (except management). Turns out in times like this, it's also an energy security measure.
I'm introverted but very glad I have the option of working from the office and being among fellow staff, we also have a lunchtime exercise club once a week. It's much better for my mental health. In fact, I've added two days working outside of home instead of one because of the benefits. I think 3 days home/2 days office is the sweet spot.
While this is true and many people echo this, I also think this is partially caused by an over-reliance on work.
Ideally, we should not be put in a situation where we have to get necessary social health through our jobs. It should be through our hobbies, our passions, our friends, and our family. The people and things we choose to spend time with.
I'm not judging you either, because this is also the case for me. But, I think, if I was WFH, I would have a lot more free time. I could dedicate that to social interactions. Most people don't, but they could.
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#339Earlier quoted context omitted.
I work 4 days a week (started because of a medical condition) and I think more people should do that. I even think that in those 4 days i get as much done as most others in 5 days because I can focus better, and sometimes when I feel like working in the non-work day I work a few hours for fun and interest.
I‘m a big fan of the four day workweek idea, but let’s not kid ourselves. 5 days are 5 days. I work 10h days usually and I just wouldn’t be able to fit all that work into 4 days.
I don't think human production is linear. There's definitely an optimal point, and it probably varies from person to person. I think, actually, past that point your productivity declines rapidly.
I would not be surprised at all if working 70 hours a week yields more productivity than 80, which yields more than 100.
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#340We're going to get a 6-day work week, aren't we? :(
Isn't that very fitting with the spirit of the times? Reading 4-day week futurism while working 5 days as you always did, hoping it doesn't get to 6. This one and UBI are the two classics of 2000s optimism and naivety.
Anyone who thinks that UBI will ever be Universal has too much faith in their legislators.