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For the same reason why in most jobs you usually don't work for more employers spread out over your week. Like, 2 hours on Monday for Alice and 3 more for Bob,
by ilammy 7y ago
For the same reason why in most jobs you usually don't work for more employers spread out over your week. Like, 2 hours on Monday for Alice and 3 more for Bob, then Tuesday is your Carol-exclusive day.
Hiring people is costly, and if everybody works fewer hours you need to hire more people to get the same output. More people also means more communication and management overhead. So suddenly changing your scheduling approach is probably net negative in the short term, if other businesses continue with the previous workload.
If most of the population agrees that 5x8 is reasonable work hours, then that's what employers pursue with scheduling. If you pursue to change the status quo (say, 3x8 or 5x6), then you should be ready for people who still think that 5x8 is perfectly reasonable and fine for them so they are going to continue doing it their way. And to the market which may not adjust to lower individual output during a significant part of your lifetime.
Of course it the entire humanity just woken up tomorrow and everybody decided that it is enough to work only 3 days per week and anything more is slavery, then the scheduling will just adjust and more people will be hired to fill the time slots.
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- Supermancho 7y ago> Hiring people is costly Only for the smallest of businesses. Your commercial rent is costly, your insurance is costly, your materials are costly. People are the least costly resource for any non union (most of world) work. Training is costly, in many cases, granted. Maybe that should be the focus, in the cases where it applies. Saying workers are costly across the board is incorrect.
- ampdepolymerase 7y agoYou are on forum for software engineers. They are hardly cheap.
- Supermancho 7y ago> (Software Engineers) are hardly cheap. Their hourly rate isn't the issue. It's about the commitment to fulltime, which SEs often avoid via contracting. Seriously, where is this "hiring is costly" sentiment coming from? Especially when it's for a job that other people are already doing.
- Talanes 7y agoWhat do you consider hiring costs to be, if you're not including training costs?
- novok 7y agoYou actually see that in healthcare. Many doctors go work for clinic X on mondays and tuesdays, and hospital Y on weds/thursday and they are different companies. Or have a 4x10 hour schedule instead of 5x8. I think it works with healthcare because it's very shift work friendly. Each customer is a discrete appointment and independent and thus more flexible.