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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 gombosg on Monday June 21, 2021 @02:57AM (#27576936)
I heard about these tracking software and I sincerely hope they won't get any more prevalent. As I see they are somewhat present in the contracting world.

I treat it as a total, humiliating devaluation of creative engineering work (and thus their identity!) to that of unskilled factory workers.

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Re:Japan's government plans to encourage 4-day workweek, but... by ForHackernews on Monday June 21, 2021 @05:05AM (#27577482)
Eventually, maybe developers will realize that they have a lot more in common with those "unskilled" workers they disdain than they do with their capitalist owners.

Unions would be helpful for both, in my view.

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Re:Japan's government plans to encourage 4-day workweek, but... by ikrenji on Monday June 21, 2021 @07:30AM (#27578169)
anyone employed anywhere should be unionized, thats just common sense
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