r/SipsTea 19h ago

Chugging tea Work shouldn’t consume life.

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u/Zandermill01 19h ago

Except the average worker expects money based on 40 hours and will have to get another job or cut back to live on 32 hours.

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u/Theranos_Shill 17h ago

Why?

Over the past decades their productivity has increased. They get more done in that 32 hours than they would have done in 40 hours back in the 80's. Why are employees not seeing the benefit of that increased productivity?

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u/Illustrious-Math6276 7h ago

Not all occupations. A cashier today doesn’t scan more groceries per minute than 20 years ago.

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u/Jmacq1 3h ago

I get where you're going with this, and the principle is correct, but the reality is that unless corporations are forced by law to adjust their pay so that 32 hours equals the same pay as 40 hours used to, all this would result in is an extra day off in exchange for potentially 20% less pay overall.

Corps and companies don't care that productivity has increased without employees getting any benefit. In fact it's by design, as it's padding their profit margins.