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The 8 hour work day: created for physical laborers, extended to paper-pushers, and forced onto creative workers along with productivity-sapping random meetings.
by 0xbadcafebee 3y ago
The 8 hour work day: created for physical laborers, extended to paper-pushers, and forced onto creative workers along with productivity-sapping random meetings.
The current white collar worker paradigm is proof that capitalism is inherently inefficient. The theory that a business will naturally optimize for efficiency does not survive a meeting with human culture, which has nothing at all to do with organizational efficiency, and everything to do with repetition, imitation, resistance to change, and the easiest short-term path. If you want to get more productivity out of a human, you need to do more than just tell them what time to arrive and go home.
- robertlagrant 3y ago> The current white collar worker paradigm is proof that capitalism is inherently inefficient Of course it's inefficient. If you don't have a dictator saying what to do, then people deciding between themselves to try stuff won't always get it right. But it seems to work better than everything else in the long term. > If you want to get more productivity out of a human, you need to do more than just tell them what time to arrive and go home. No one just does this, and lots of companies don't even do it. Working times are mostly so that there are work overlap times so people can communicate and not be blocked on things.