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4-day week seems overwhelmingly positive for all parties. Why is it so slow to catch on?
Dunno if it has improved, but Japanese work ethic is an entire beast by itself. It's so hierarchal and culture based that lots of business management classes even use it as a prime example of how different the system can be depending on where you are.
Someone I knew worked as an engineer at a US company, and they had also brought in some engineers from Japan.
He was expected to work 9-5 yet he said no matter how early he came in, there were always several Japanese workers there, and they would stay as late as 11 pm.
All this despite it being a US company, which doesn't expect it's workers to go insane on overtime.
Point being is that it is so ingrained into their society, it is difficult to change, even if there are immediate benefits from a new system.
Kinda. Doing that would actually run them into legal problems in recent days due to cracking down on working conditions. If an employee works without clocking in, they could even be found in violation of law (which is how people used to get around that; social pressure would mean clocking in late and clocking out early yet still working). There is still a social pressure issue to fix, but I think the younger generation has had enough of it on this front; wages are stagnant, inflation is rising, the lifetime employment system is eroding, bonuses are low or gone, etc.
I'm going to guess it's the same origin as "the cruelty is the point". Some people just don't want other people to be happy.
Also some people aren't fact driven. Working fewer days feels like it should be less productive, so it must be.
If I had to guess, it's probably because the entities in charge of these changes are very old and very stuck in their ways.
So-called risks taking executives/business people when they could take a risk to benefit their employees without hurting their bottom line (and possibly even increasing it):
That'll be us when we're old, in-charge and stuck in our 2020 ways
It's not about what is better for both parties, it's about control. Leadership and the 1% want to keep us in line. If they relent and give us a better work/life balance, what's next? Raises that match inflation? Better benefits?
Work only lose 20% of my time, but I gain 50% free time.
I punch those numbers into my calculator, it makes a happy face.
Because you'll never convince the right people that these people would produce same results as they do in 5 days.
I'm sick of hearing of excuses made by the folt who haven't lifted a finger in decades.
What are managers going to do the fifth day, stay with their family ?!!
Managers have time bombed agendas and think everyone else have too.
Because, of control, power, and because many of the older generation seem the think that if they had to suffer in some specific way, then it's their duty to pass that same suffering on to the next generation.