I'm questioning if we're paid according to how productive we are. The more steps there are between you and revenue the less likely this seems to be true.
Because you aren't really paid based on hard results in large companies, the 8 hours becomes more about posturing than actually delivering the results.
I'm open to other ideas. I desperately want to work 20 hours a week instead of 40. I'm trying to better understand why we're stuck at 40.
Public healthcare (as a baseline for any luxury private care to beat).
Public vacation / family leave (pooling the liability, seniority, and policies in to a common system).
In this way the funding for these benefits becomes taxes and their distribution disconnected from the employment at any particular business, as well as from the business paying any particular employee.
I'm not affiliated but I'd love to see more postings here. https://30hourjobs.com/
I think others would echo that sentiment.
This. We're at a point where many jobs could be done in 15-20 hours a week, but we require everyone to punch in and out like it's a factory.
I live in flyover country, and work in higher education. I have exempt staff. Some weeks they have 2 hours worth of work, some weeks they have 70. But, because the cultural norm is that you can't be productive unless you're filling seats from 8-5, they waste 38 hours some weeks, and don't meet the requirements of the extra 30 others.
It's just outrageous, and I don't understand it. This is 2020. It's the real future now. Let's grow up as a society.