Start with universal basic income and a 15-hour work week

Re:Start with universal basic income and a 15-hour work week by aaron-lebo on Thursday March 02, 2017 @09:51AM (#13774331)

Does it scale like that though?

If you do 15 hours of work over a 40 hour week, do you still do 15 hours of work over a 15 hour week, or do people end up doing 5 hours of work?

Is there any evidence either way? These discussions always bring out the anecdotes, but we need hard stats to show whether this is even doable.

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Re:Start with universal basic income and a 15-hour work week by logfromblammo on Thursday March 02, 2017 @10:10AM (#13774504)

I have worked in at least one organization where the meetings were likely there to prevent work from being done too quickly with an activity that still counted as billable hours. Just before I left, the "daily stand-up" included the entire development team and testing team, and lasted a minimum of 45 minutes. That was nearly 20 people, packed into one office, justifying their existence on a daily basis.

So some people would actually dedicate that 15 hours to getting things done, and some people would still fill it up with bullshit and game the management metrics to maximize pay per unit of effort.

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