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The problem is everytime someone seems to discuss shorter work hours or work weeks, they also ship in a pay cut as well. If I can he equally as productive in 4

• buboard 7y ago
  Remote work forces companies to adapt to results-oriented work
  • Mirioron 7y ago
    On the other hand, you could argue that remote work makes you work more.
• abj 7y ago
  I agree with you, you shouldn't be paid less. The problem is in larger companies rarely are you paid according to the value you create. Mostly likely as a developer your "cost" is how much the hiring manager would need to pay for the next best equivalent worker. I'm questioning if we're paid according to how productive we are. The more steps there are between you and revenue the less likely this seems to be true. Because you aren't really paid based on hard results in large companies, the 8 hours becomes more about posturing than actually delivering the results. I'm open to other ideas. I desperately want to work 20 hours a week instead of 40. I'm trying to better understand why we're stuck at 40.
  • mjevans 7y ago
    One very great place to start fixing this would be all "benefits" being public. Public healthcare (as a baseline for any luxury private care to beat). Public vacation / family leave (pooling the liability, seniority, and policies in to a common system). In this way the funding for these benefits becomes taxes and their distribution disconnected from the employment at any particular business, as well as from the business paying any particular employee.