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Your comment (point 2 especially) reflects the current widespread notion (among employers at least, it seems) that one hour of work is one hour of work, always.
by soft_dev_person 11y ago
Your comment (point 2 especially) reflects the current widespread notion (among employers at least, it seems) that one hour of work is one hour of work, always. I think the main point of the article is exactly to counter that.
> "Productivity – output per working hour – improves with shorter hours."
And why should the employer get all the benefit from this? I think a lot of people would love to work fewer hours, be more productive those hours, if they could retain the same salary.
I would love to, at least, but can't afford reduced pay.
- golergka 11y ago> And why should the employer get all the benefit from this? Thankfully, we don't analytically decide who takes the benefits — labor market is working pretty well at figuring this out.
- zepto 11y agoHow do you know it's working pretty well?
- sauronlord 11y agoI'm "paid for" 40 hours a week. However since I'm awesome, it takes me only 20-30 hours a week to accomplish more than the output of the younger software developers. Work from home, come in late, come in early, work late, leave early. Doesn't matter, it balances out. The more I work from home, the greater productivity gains I have over everyone else that remains at the office. It's satisfying. And I get paid more than them by at least 40%. Go figure.
- zepto 11y agoHow does that say anything about the labor market market mechanism?
- pc86 11y agoWhether it's working well overall is mostly a matter of opinion, but it seems to be working pretty well for sauronlord at least.
- zepto 11y agoSo sauronlord's reply contributes nothing as an answer to my question about golergka's statement which was: "Thankfully, we don't analytically decide who takes the benefits — labor market is working pretty well at figuring this out." I'm genuinely curious to know how we would know whether the labor market is working well at figuring this out or not.
- golergka 11y agoBecause I know how it compares to planned economy, which was doing it completely awfully in comparison. And in general, by every measure labour markets which have enough volume to regulate themselves fair far better than labour markets that are small or subjected to monopoly from either side.
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