Cutting your salary by 40%

Re:Cutting your salary by 40% by Cthulhu_ on Monday September 18, 2017 @09:05AM (#15275453)

> What happens when every company is doing this ritual?

Just look at Japan to see what a 12+ hour / day work culture looks like. Their population and their economy are both slowly going down the shitter thanks to it, depression is widespread, etc.

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Re:Cutting your salary by 40% by otterpro on Monday September 18, 2017 @12:51PM (#15277465)

Working long hours is common in Asia, especially in Japan and Korea. My wife had worked as salaried accountant at Nike, Gap, Guess fashion, and other companies that have presence in Asia, and it was common for her to have to stay at work until 11pm, sometimes past midnight, and yet expected to report by 9am the next morning. Leaving work at 9pm would be ordinary, and leaving at 6pm would be like committing a career suicide. I have a friend who worked at Samsung in Korea and told me that the work hours were brutally long, but no one wanted to change jobs because the alternative was another job with less pay but still with long hours, as expected.

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Re:Cutting your salary by 40% by quuquuquu on Monday September 18, 2017 @07:42PM (#15280647)

I'm almost certain I would rather starve. Wow.

Why live life like that? The only way to win is to not play!

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Re:Cutting your salary by 40% by dx034 on Monday September 18, 2017 @09:09AM (#15275494)

Not sure if economic problems really come from long work days. Otherwise it'd be easy to boost the economy by forcing people to work less.

I totally agree with the health problems it causes though.

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Re:Cutting your salary by 40% by randomdata on Monday September 18, 2017 @02:11PM (#15278137)

> Not sure if economic problems really come from long work days.

I'm not sure either, but, at least as the story is told today, that was Ford's motivation for implementing the 8 hour workday at Ford. He allegedly surmised that if people were too busy working, they wouldn't have time to buy his products. It certainly seems plausible. If you spend all your time working, you really don't need to buy much other than the basic necessities, which doesn't help with a robust economy.

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Re:Cutting your salary by 40% by eli_gottlieb on Monday September 18, 2017 @09:21AM (#15275618)

>Otherwise it'd be easy to boost the economy by forcing people to work less.

Well have we tried it?

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Re:Cutting your salary by 40% by bryanlarsen on Monday September 18, 2017 @10:22AM (#15276181)

Henry Ford did, to great success.

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Re:Cutting your salary by 40% by marcosdumay on Monday September 18, 2017 @10:56AM (#15276467)

> it'd be easy to boost the economy by forcing people to work less

That looks likely. But it will reduce the concentration of wealth (probably, dramatically), so expect some opposition.

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Re:Cutting your salary by 40% by dogruck on Monday September 18, 2017 @10:16AM (#15276129)

What makes you think that Japan's economic growth is directly connected to the long work hours? Sounds like a stretch to me.

Also, aren't we supposed to be accepting of all cultures? If that's the Japanese culture, why is it okay to disparage it?

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