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Re:Surgeon General says loneliness is driving US into anxiet... by toomuchtodo on Thursday December 05, 2024 @12:45PM (#42330474)
"We've tried nothing and we're all out of options." The data on 4 Day Week trials has been positive in almost all cases [1], across many countries, same with remote work. We should try it if we care, I just don't think we care at a system level.

Like rapidly declining fertility rates, there is enough will to complain, no will to change anything (imho, based on observations and the data). Maybe things need to get worse before they get better, I think we're just arguing over how bad the situation will need to get before change is made (structural demographics, socioeconomics, etc).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39992783 (citations)

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Re:Surgeon General says loneliness is driving US into anxiet... by Salmonfisher11 on Thursday December 05, 2024 @01:13PM (#42330767)
The bitter fact that we all have to swallow: higher management isn't interested in scientific facts.
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Re:Surgeon General says loneliness is driving US into anxiet... by vundercind on Thursday December 05, 2024 @01:25PM (#42330924)
It’s eye-opening to watch management ignore incredibly obvious methodological errors that clearly render the entire PowerPoint they’re looking at so suspect that it’s worthless. And it happens just about constantly.

They’re either dumber than a slightly-bright 8th grade science student, or simply don’t care about the substance of trying to make decisions based on good data, but just the appearance, the theater, of doing so. Either way, outcome’s the same.

Whatever you do, don’t point it out. They will not listen, because they don’t care.

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Re:Surgeon General says loneliness is driving US into anxiet... by toomuchtodo on Friday December 06, 2024 @12:56PM (#42342234)
Additional citation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42342203 ("HN: Tokyo government gives workers 4-day workweek to boost fertility, family time")

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/06/asia/tokyo-government-4-day-w... ("CNN: Tokyo government gives workers 4-day workweek to boost fertility, family time")

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