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Re:Long hours link to dementia risk by klahnako on Saturday February 28, 2009 @05:52PM (#498561)
From the article: "This should say to employers that insisting people work long hours is actually not good for your business"

Wrong! As a business, you should overwork you employees. When the dementia starts affecting performance you fire them. This way you can privatize the benefits (long hours) and socialize the losses (some else takes care of them). Anything else would not be good for profits.

Re:Long hours link to dementia risk by triplefox on Saturday February 28, 2009 @06:41PM (#498594)
You lose the knowledge your workers acquired on the job; a new hire cannot offer you that.

So this only works if you are in a franchise business where everyone works to a script and does not innovate, develop long-term relationships, or perform an important leadership function.

Re:Long hours link to dementia risk by rw on Saturday February 28, 2009 @08:14PM (#498656)
"People are commodities." How many business owners think this way, without realizing it?