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Would you personally adopt a six-hour workday? Assuming you got paid 25% less? (Also assuming you currently only work eight hours, which may be a stretch.) I w

• michaelchisari 11y ago
  The purpose of a six hour workday is that you wouldn't get paid 25% less.
  • hugh4 11y ago
    And why would I pay someone the same for working less?
    • rmxt 11y ago
      In school, was your grade determined by how long you worked at a problem, or by the quality of the work itself?
      • hugh4 11y ago
        At school I tried to do the bare minimum amount of work that I thought I could get away with, so... probably the former?
        • rmxt 11y ago
          I am sorry that you felt that way in school, but "real life" shouldn't, and doesn't have to, be like that. Whether your anecdote is true or merely a creative reimagination from a prototypical brilliant slacker, the point still stands: work and pay should not (typically) be measured by the time spent doing that work, but by the output and effectiveness of the individual. Sure, certain civil service jobs inherently require a time component, e.g. firemen, police officers, etc., but many professions would benefit from a departure from the 8 hour work day.
    • Delmania 11y ago
      Do you think that just because someone is in the office, he's being productive? Most of the time, people are in the office to give the illusion of productivity.
      • hugh4 11y ago
        Of course, but what I'm not convinced by is the idea that if you lop off two of those hours it all comes out of the goofing off pile instead of the hard work pile. My own experience when I work a short day does not match that. I set my own hours, so if I thought I could be just as productive with fewer office hours I'd be all over that.
• femto 11y ago
  The proposal is for a six hour day with no change in pay. Quoting one of the articles referred to on the article: "The 1990s saw several experiments with the six-hour day for a full wage in Sweden."[1] The theory is that people should be based on work output, rather than hours input, and the six hour day typically sees an increase in productivity, so the output is maintained and the pay is maintained. [1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/17/efficiency-up-turnover-down-sweden-experiments-with-six-hour-working-day http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/17/efficiency-up-t...
  • mc32 11y ago
    I'd love to see tho applied to low level (maybe even high level -though don't interact with them to know) government workers. They are totally about hours put in and very little about work achieved, few, few exceptions of course.
  • owen_griffiths 11y ago
    but the example in this article required more workers hired, so output per worker clearly wasn't maintained.