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A comment on Japan's government plans to encourage 4-day workweek, but experts split. Parent comment

Re:Japan's government plans to encourage 4-day workweek, but... by egman_ekki on Monday June 21, 2021 @01:58AM (#27576693)
Even if their time was 5 times as valuable to the company as their pay, it seems very unfair to pay someone 3.7k per week, but require 20k from them if they want to take a week off? That basically means that if you took 3 months sabbatical, and worked the rest of the year, you would actually pay your employer 100k for working those 9 months...
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Re:Japan's government plans to encourage 4-day workweek, but... by jstummbillig on Monday June 21, 2021 @02:47AM (#27576908)
A system, where other people make more off your work than you do has pretty intrinsic problems.
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Re:Japan's government plans to encourage 4-day workweek, but... by nickff on Monday June 21, 2021 @02:34PM (#27582260)
Customers and clients of all sorts obtain consumer surpluses; if they were indifferent, they would not make purchases... Employers are just a different sort of customer.
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