A Viral Post Highlights the Cynical Logic Behind Ending a Successful Four-Day Workweek Pilot
A social media post from the account 'inhuman resour...' has sparked debate by detailing a company's decision to cancel a successful four-day workweek pilot program. The post claims that despite the trial resulting in increased productivity, higher employee happiness, and lower turnover, management chose to revert to a five-day schedule. The reasoning provided is that if employees could complete their full workload in four days, the company could theoretically extract even more output by forcing them to work a fifth day. The post serves as a satirical commentary on corporate management styles that prioritize maximum output over employee well-being and work-life balance.
One vital question remains though: they switched to 4 day work week and kept the hours? So a 10 hour work day Monday to Thursday? Because that's something i'm not interested in. Furher more, let's say we all do the switch and work 32h per week with no pay cut. How long will it be
People seems to miss one crucial thing. The workload is the same. The working hours is the one that increases. so instead of 8-5 monday to friday, it becomes 8-7 monday to thursday.
Remind me when I worked in a print shop they had someone come down from corporate to see if they could streamline anything. They timed us all doing various tasks but this one woman was panicking and did everything at her absolutely fastest. All that came from it was we can do eve
My boss agreed on a 4 day week but we have to do 10 hour days. We fuck off for the last two every day. Everything gets done, nonetheless.
This is the most fucked up thing, i have seen today
Sounds about right for HR scum.
no problem boss, now we do 5 days of work in 10 days
Before the experiment: 50 tasks in 5 days (10 tasks per day). During the experiment: 50 (and more) tasks in 4 days (at least 12.5 tasks per day). After the experiment: “You did 12.5 tasks in a day, now we expect 60 tasks from you this whole 5 days of working”
Imagine how much you can do with 6 days a week 9 hours a day and no Healthcare
Theres a free spot right next to the boiler room in de deepest pits of hell for these people. Account might be satire but you KNOW this happens somewhere.