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You make good points and I agree with your reluctance to assume that employers will do much that doesn't suit them, but I think you'd obviously see a change in
by prawn 11y ago
You make good points and I agree with your reluctance to assume that employers will do much that doesn't suit them, but I think you'd obviously see a change in pay for any reduced work.
Of course, whether a breadwinning parent can resist $x for 5 days over $0.8x for 4 days equivalent to spend more time with their family is another issue. The rat race means people constantly want more, usually at any cost. If you work fewer 9-5 hours, I imagine you have to endure more time resisting out of office work, rogue calls, etc.
Perhaps once AR/VR offices are more common and companies are more comfortable with teleworkers, we could see people do full-time equivalent but with a couple of hours from 8-10pm to make up for being home from 3-5pm for after-school family time.
We also currently waste a significant amount of time commuting...
- peterwwillis 11y agoIf the 'making up work later' example weren't exclusive to white collar workers who already have the flexibility to take their work home it might make sense, but i'm fairly certain that's a small percentage. The public sector, blue collar jobs, service jobs... these would be difficult to impossible to do remote, and on one's own time. We are the very lucky small minority who are not location- or shift-constrained. The article is addressing millennials at large who all want to share the responsibilities of child-rearing and bread-winning. I think this is an incredibly difficult change to make for the majority of millennials and their employers - without screwing somebody over, that is. I'm pretty sure if it does get implemented it'll be at the expense of singles.
- prawn 11y agoGood points. Though I think we may eventually see some service workers operate remotely via video or similar. That won't cover everything, but at least some.
- jon-wood 11y agoI'll also add that I have minimal problems with being asked to work on my day off. Sometimes I'll change which days I'm in the office, but I don't think I've yet given up that day off outright, the worst that'll happen is a quick phone call to talk someone through dealing with an outage on one of my systems.