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Krash412 t1_j9envzy wrote

I feel like the natural conclusion to a change like this in the US would be companies seeing how productive people can be in 4 days, and adding back a 5th day to increase profit even more.

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SsurebreC t1_j9fd9yj wrote

We used to have 6 work days and this hasn't happened yet. So there's little reason to think it would now.

What's worse is that unlike back then, quite a few white collar jobs feel like they're not just 7 day jobs but on-call 24/7 jobs.

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eightNote t1_j9hvmrs wrote

Now we have 7 day weeks, really. That or short hours split across all times and days of the week, but just few enough hours to avoid paying certain benefits.

That's the tech company low paid contractor(eg. Uber driver) and just-in-time employment of the present.

Some people are still on 5 day weeks... Outside of answer emails on the weekend and the like, but that's not the only experience, and certainly not where jobs have been trending

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8-Brit t1_j9fmmj0 wrote

I work at a hospital albeit in the IT department

I can only see it working if they shuffle things and hire more people to cover the off days. Like have some of us do Mon to Thurs and the rest Tues to Fri.

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Senyu t1_j9fvk7n wrote

But that's logical and makes sense, we can't have that.

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Sirerdrick64 t1_j9hbdpj wrote

“You guys have never delivered better results than when you worked from home over the last two years.”
“We are happy to welcome you back into the office - and it is mandatory.”
This is pretty much verbatim what we were told, and the statements really did come in that exact order.

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Resies t1_j9iabwy wrote

Yeah that's what my company did. Hybrid, at least, but ...

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Sirerdrick64 t1_j9jed59 wrote

All of these execs just copy each other.
Zero creative thinking.
In days I’m forced to work from the office I simply leave my laptop in my car overnight.
I’m not spending 10 hours at the office only to pick back up at home.
Sure, I’ll work over the 16 hours I’m awake if I work from home, taking early morning and late night calls.
I’ll get my time back throughout the day in this case though!

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Resies t1_j9mv5jb wrote

Yeah, I'm not surprised they want us back in because there's a pretty large campus and right before the pandemic they dumped a lot of $ into renovations. We do all of our meetings in zoom though at our desks because logic

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Sirerdrick64 t1_j9mw6s1 wrote

They need to go back to business school and re-learn “sunk cost fallacy” haha

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Bioslack t1_j9inreu wrote

Same. Monday and Friday are still flexible though, you can work from home as long as you don't have anything going on that requires you to be on-site.

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Sirerdrick64 t1_j9jehig wrote

I still like the word “flexible.”
If it were truly flexible, it would be up to the manager and their team to determine the need to be on site.
In our case, it is like you explain and the number (although not specific days) of days is mandated.

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Rusty-Shackleford t1_j9ge5k2 wrote

But then they'll see productivity plateau and there won't be a difference in output between 4 day and 5 day work weeks. Only difference being it costs more time and money to make people work that extra day for no extra productivity.

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psychedoutcasts t1_j9gutfr wrote

The US will never change so long as people get angry at politicians and noy the corpos that pay them.

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BrunoBashYa t1_j9i99v7 wrote

Nah, in the US they just pay so little you need 3 jobs and work 7 days

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