• lennybird@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    It’s LONG overdue. Been saying this for years. Reducing the stress, increasing free time (and therefore things like family time, innovation time, etc.) would vastly overhaul our society. Productivity has risen for decades while wages remain stagnant and work-life balance, if anything, has worsened.

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      8 months ago

      Productivity has risen for decades while wages remain stagnant and work-life balance, if anything, has worsened.

      Wages are determined by balance of power.

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      8 months ago

      work-life balance, if anything, has worsened.

      I don’t believe that(but that’s just my gut feeling). I think its fair to say that demand of work-life balance has increased though.

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        8 months ago

        Depends on the field but since the pandemic I see folks being"connected" to work in unimaginable ways where they are constantly answering emails or working from home to complete work in their evenings and weekends. Just logging into teams at anytime on a weekend I can see at least a few people online working. This wasn’t the case pre pandemic.

        • Anise (they/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          8 months ago

          Logging in on the weekend reinforces this norm. If people see you are online, it lessens any cognitive dissonance they have with the voice in the back of their head saying “this is some bullshit, this is my day off.”

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        8 months ago

        There was a time when if someone wanted to reach you after hours they had to call your house and leave a message on your answering machine. now you have “bosses” that get pissy if you take 5 minutes to respond to a text in the middle of the night.