Unpopular opinion: The 40-hour work week is broken.
Employees should be judged on their productivity and results, not on time spent in the office.
The 40-hour work creates a culture where employees are judged on the amount of time they spend at their desks, instead of the quality of work produced and their impact.
This leads to burnout and diminishing returns as workers put in long hours just for the sake of clocking more face time.
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there would be a disparity of workers who get good tasks, enjoy work and make good progress vs those who get the worst tasks, hate it and struggle the entire way.
knowledge work is often unsuitable for the worker. tasks are too difficult or too easy, too monotone, the customer is too naggy, the goals are constantly changing.
then there's the problem of measuring the output and who measures. direct manager can be good at their job or bad.
I'd prefer 40 hours and not be measured by results vs. choosing my hours and getting measured.
@kaia@FluentInFinance there's indeed a lot of work for which it's effectively impossible to quantify productivity in any reasonable way and/or within the time-frame needed to determine pay, but this doesn't make the 40 hour work week any less broken. When I got freshly hired I spent all of August in the office because I had no vacation days. I was literally the only one there. I did absolutely zilch. I could have spent that some time at home, and would have probably been more productive.
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