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JohnDClay ,

Even 32 hours a week with a proportional decrease in pay would be a huge improvement.

Powerpoint ,

You shouldn’t have to take a cut in pay for this. Productivity has increased and the benefits of the productivity increase has only gone to the ultra wealthy.

JohnDClay ,

But negotiating only for higher wages per hour and lower hours as a package deal could make it harder to get either. It probably depends employer to employer, but doing both at the same time would be hard to make them do.

some_guy ,

Which is why we need to build class solidarity, unions, and strike. A hundred years ago, people fought for everything they could get. They didn’t say “safe working conditions or a 40h work week.” They said, “we want all we can get.”

treefrog ,

A lot of people are struggling with inflation already. A 20% pay cut is not an improvement.

JohnDClay ,

Yeah not for everyone. I’m thinking higher paying areas like technology and programming where pay is high but people are getting really burned out.

treefrog ,

Yeah, I can see in those specific situations. Cost of living tends to be high in areas with a lot of technology jobs though so I don’t know.

I’m not those people so I can’t speak for them.

curiousaur ,

I’m a programmer, and it’s very different from hourly work. Realistically, any programmer is coding for like 1-2 hours a day. There are meetings so we understand the problem we have to solve, and a lot of time thinking through the problems and architecture solutions. We’re not sitting there typing for 8 hours a day, or at least those are the ones getting burned out. Realistically I’m working like 30 hours a week already, with only 10 hours being real coding, the rest being talking, researching, learning, and pondering. Maybe I’m lucky I work somewhere that that stuff isn’t seen as slacking.

Nemo ,

Ugh. I once did some independent programming and the guy insisted I do it in front of him because it involved his proprietary data. So much griping about the time I spent looking at documentation or referring to coding assistance sites like Stack Overflow. I quit on day two.

McScience ,

Honestly as a mid-career IT person, I’d take a 30-40% cut for that extra day without a second of hesitation.

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