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People aren't robots they need breaks, vacations, time to decompress, time off when sick.
by mseidl 8y ago
People aren't robots they need breaks, vacations, time to decompress, time off when sick.
- batrat 8y ago"How do you dare to say that! Our ancestors took weekends off in the battlefield? GET IT DONE!"
- xvilka 8y agoWell, even robots do need periodical checks, maintenance and cooling down sometimes.
- krapp 8y ago>People aren't robots they need breaks, vacations, time to decompress, time off when sick. It's worth remembering that the only reason employees get these concessions is because unions and governments forced companies to do so under threat of (sometimes direct) violence, and that part of the "disruptive" philosophy of modern startup culture is an attempt to undermine and roll back these gains in labor rights under the pretense of free-market efficiency.
- cloverich 8y agoI think that's a biased take. Ultimately you can't have concessions without enough economy to support it in the first place, so it cuts both ways. There's plenty of glamor stories about certain startup's having shitty work cultures, but in general a startup is a riskier place to work in the first place. That having a shitty work culture would attract employee's from safer, (culturally) better jobs seems unlikely (and contradicts my personal experience, at least).
- hevi_jos 8y agoIt is worth remembering the real reason there is a limit of 8 hours a day for work is because of a man called Henry Ford, that studied seriously productivity on his company's 300.000 workers and got to the conclusion that 8 hours a day means maximum productivity. This man along other industrialists started to lobby for 8 hours a day and they got exactly that.