Japanese work culture is just insane. I’m not sure if an extra day off is going to help. People work way too late and spend way too much time at work pretend working without actually getting anything done. Is deep rooted in culture and I’m not sure what the fix looks like.
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Its happening in the usa already at some companies
4 day workweeks? I support it. I generally support fewer hours worked per day too. The standard work day is super inefficient for vast majority of people.
I think the similarities of Japan, and America is due to our inefficient thought that more hours = more productivity, when the reality is there's a maximum amount of hours that efficiency can be utilized.
Germany utilizes productive measures for compensation instead of hourly pay, one thing other countries should adopt.
There were studies a while back to determine how many productive hours people generally have in office jobs and it’s something like less than half the working day. 3-4 hours max. The rest are just socializing and being extremely inefficient.
Imagine being a Japanese worker spending 3 hours being productive and the other 7-8 hours basically wasting away your life with no time left for romantic relationships.
It's an issue from every angle, and policy makers are too blind to it.
Definitely a contributing factor causing the global population decline, and of course the biggest hypocrite on The Issue is Elon Musk while his companies have 40 to 80 hour work days, reduced parental leave, and cover abortions.
It's a combination of factors of course, social changes due to the internet, and "progressivism", jobs market screwry (jobs don't provide necessities anymore, good jobs are hard to find if not non-existent, and fake jobs, etc.), debt, inflation, and taxes, so in a way individuals, companies/corporations, and governments are all to blame.
Also jobs are less stable and all the hopping between must also add a lot of stress.
I think job hopping is a byproduct of companies not investing into its employees, and reduced quality for customers, companies seek profits over the well being of others.
And while profit is good, profit for profits sake by any means possible is bad, profit should derive from valued labor producing valuable products for valued customers, not miserable employees producing subpar products while customers are upset about a product that last as long as a modern marriage.
I think it’s all a byproduct of the fiat system. Poor values propagating throughout society.
A lot of the modern illnesses go hand in hand but I agree Fiat is probably one of the primary crux, or dam that clogs up the flow way of natural behaviors.
Without sick money, I think all other things considered the natural order would start to arrange itself, and things could heal again.
New generation, new habits, maybe...
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When I speak with friends from Europe, they’re always astonished by how much we have to work in the US and how little vacation we get. I wish more Americans were aware that our norm doesn’t have to be the norm. Most of us stay in our bubbles, so we’re never in contention with our own frameworks of life. People in Europe seem to care more about living and enjoying life than we do. I hope things will change one day
I don't know if this is true, other than YouTube influencer bullshit, but the whole, having to hire a company to help you quit a job AND your past work experience doesn't carry to your new job because you should be loyal to the company, so you have to start at the bottom and try to work up again... Is just insane.