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'
#2The source (per HN guidelines - in the article) is: https://www.kedglobal.com/corporate-strategy/newsView/ked202... .. posted 5 hours ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40081798
Re: Samsung shifts executives to six-day workweeks to 'inject a sense of crisis'
#3Only for executives? Sounds like a good move actually.
Re: Samsung shifts executives to six-day workweeks to 'inject a sense of crisis'
#4... because what everyone really needs is for their executives to have a sense of crisis. I'm sure that will help a lot.
Re: Samsung shifts executives to six-day workweeks to 'inject a sense of crisis'
#5Similar 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.
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#6Only for executives? Sounds like a good move actually.
The shit trickles down. I foresee Saturday morning meetings for their direct reports, etc until everyone works 6 days, or signal themselves as disloyal non team players.
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#7The beatings will continue until moral improves
Re: Samsung shifts executives to six-day workweeks to 'inject a sense of crisis'
#8I've been reading Cal Newport's stuff on Deep Work and Digital Minimalism and have some of his other books on my to read list. Considering the stuff he talks about and his new book on slow productivity, this move seems like a really bad idea. I'm curious to see the outcome of this.
I've adopted a more deliberate, focused work day and already seeing some improvements in my work quality, energy, and creativity.
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#9I 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.
Re: Samsung shifts executives to six-day workweeks to 'inject a sense of crisis'
#10How does working harder solve "rising borrowing costs and oil prices and a rapid depreciation of Korean currency"? Those are all exogenous factors.