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Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena)
Ferie solo per malattia grave
Si prendono le ferie solo per gravi malattie, nella convinzione che il proprio contributo risulti imprescindibile alla collettività. Gli straordinari rientrano nella norma, facendo aumentare le possibilità di riconoscimento da parte della direzione.
Obsession With 'hard Work' Is A Dangerous Distraction
Keynes's fifteen-hour week never arrived
The dream in the past was that capitalism would bring about a reduction in work hours. Keynes famously looked forward to the day when we would work only 15 hours per week. He thought that rising levels of affluence would lead to a shorter working week and to the liberation of…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
Technology should reduce labor
and from what I have glimpsed through them, I would say that Western technology could be pruned back, and pruned back hard. Most of it strikes me as having gone off at a tangent; it’s not even relevant. Personally, I want an apartment and a job like I want a hole in the head…
The Case For Working Less
Advantages of working less hours
Working less presents several advantages. One is the opportunity to overcome the anomaly of overwork for some and unemployment for others. Sharing out work more evenly across the available population by reducing average working time would enable those who work too much to work…