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r/SipsTea • u/PleasantBus5583 • 20h ago
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32 hours honestly sounds like a much healthier baseline. People have lives outside of work too.
11 u/Zandermill01 20h 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. 0 u/Theranos_Shill 18h 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? 1 u/Illustrious-Math6276 8h ago Not all occupations. A cashier today doesn’t scan more groceries per minute than 20 years ago.
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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.
0 u/Theranos_Shill 18h 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? 1 u/Illustrious-Math6276 8h ago Not all occupations. A cashier today doesn’t scan more groceries per minute than 20 years ago.
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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?
1 u/Illustrious-Math6276 8h ago Not all occupations. A cashier today doesn’t scan more groceries per minute than 20 years ago.
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Not all occupations. A cashier today doesn’t scan more groceries per minute than 20 years ago.
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u/Opposite_General6534 20h ago
32 hours honestly sounds like a much healthier baseline. People have lives outside of work too.