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moana posted:The article argues that layoffs would decrease drastically, because they can't just shunt the work off on another worker. Rather than paying overtime, they would have an incentive to hire more workers. I feel like that's an argument that a lot of corporations would make, but I can't see it happening in the real world. Wage reduction or bonus reduction, maybe, but when was the last time your bonus would have paid you as much as overtime? I liked the OT when I got it but overall I viewed it as a way to pay less and get you to rely on OT as a way to get ahead and I can tell you that my company would always, ALWAYS prefer to pay 10 workers 10hrs of OT than hire 1 more position because of the overhead on adding a position. I also liked it because if you wanted me to do X task, you had to be willing to shell out the OT. Now no one cares if I'm working 45 or 90hrs in a week.
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Saros posted:Employee culture in the US is toxic. A couple years ago my company went through all the trouble of building a facility and hiring people in Germany where it's basically the leave/scheduling policy you describe. Of course the bosses sing the chorus of "more time off and working less hours would kill us!" yet it's somehow profitable enough and even a worthy of throwing more capital at for expansion 3 years running. The Germans genuinely feel bad for us. I'm even told to do my internal pr presentations about current marketing activities/sciency things for the general edification of the associate during lunch so people can attend, unpaid. Because taking them off the production floor for 20 mins to tell them what their company is doing and how we play a role in society and the work you do is important is a hardship our numbers could not endure.
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