Re:NYC Skyscrapers Sit Vacant, Exposing Risk City Never Pred...
by afavour on Thursday May 18, 2023 @07:42PM
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I don’t really understand how that’s at all relevant. The point is that social connections are more difficult with remote work irrespective of how many hours you’re working.
Re:NYC Skyscrapers Sit Vacant, Exposing Risk City Never Pred...
by mschuster91 on Friday May 19, 2023 @02:14AM
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When you have to work 60h+ weeks, you're way too exhausted in the evening to do anything social, and you'll lose the weekend to barely recovering. That forces many people to look for companionship in their coworkers.
Re:NYC Skyscrapers Sit Vacant, Exposing Risk City Never Pred...
by afavour on Friday May 19, 2023 @08:32AM
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I don’t work 60+ hour weeks, I work an entirely respectable number of hours. I don’t in any way feel “forced” to look for companionship with my coworkers, I want to, they’re nice people. And remote work makes it harder.
Oh, we Europeans have no problem with that. The difference we have is that we have employee protection laws that put a hard cap on working hours to 48h a week on average over a year (with some rare exceptions, usually for crews of offshore rigs, boats, public health/safety, military and private security) - and that this stuff gets audited, especially on complaints. And when the government looks at a company, they audit everything, not just the person who complained...