This aspect of the four day week idea has been missing from the discourse. For the avoidance of doubt, I absolutely support it. But the proposal must explicitly include hourly paid workers (for whom it means a 25% increase in hourly pay) and it must explicitly include workers whose productivity cannot possibly increase by 25% to make up for the missing hours because of the nature of the work (whether it’s answering phones or assembling widgets).
In this real world that we live in, where employers are free to pick and choose which employees it applies to, it’s very hard to see it leading to equitable outcomes.
As I write these words, I am sitting at home in Tel Aviv, trying to figure out how to protect my family in a house with no shelter or safe room, following with growing panic the reports and rumors of horrible events taking place in the Israeli towns near Gaza which are under attack. I see people, some of them my friends, calling...
I didn’t use the word apartheid but it absolutely is. And individual Israelis don’t deserve this any more than the Palestinians deserve it. But your country is in the grip of absolute fanatics who absolutely will not settle for peace.
Israel has the 4th or 5th largest military in the world. The Palestinians have home-made rockets and stones. Don’t you dare play the victim.
Working week: four days is flawed way for most | Financial Times (www.ft.com)
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As I write these words, I am sitting at home in Tel Aviv, trying to figure out how to protect my family in a house with no shelter or safe room, following with growing panic the reports and rumors of horrible events taking place in the Israeli towns near Gaza which are under attack. I see people, some of them my friends, calling...