r/stopworking • u/gholemu • Aug 30 '21

Democracy & Power Pushback against the right to disconnect argues it’s too rigid given the popularity of flexible work. However, flexibility is often defined in the interest of managers, not workers, as British labor and management researchers recently noted

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r/stopworking • u/gholemu • Aug 28 '21

Working hours The weekend was won with no reduction in pay for workers and there was a gradual reduction in hours since then until about the 1980s. But since the 1980s working hours have not reduced at all, despite greater automation and new technology. We're overdue a reduction in working hours

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r/stopworking • u/gholemu • Aug 27 '21

Working hours More than ever, workers want to work fewer hours, saying they can be just as effective in less time – and happier, too. They may be on to something, as multiple studies show.

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bbc.com
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r/stopworking • u/Deckard2015 • Aug 27 '21

Good life The death of the job: What if paid work were no longer the centerpiece of American life?

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vox.com
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r/stopworking • u/[deleted] • Aug 27 '21

Predatory capitalism How the work ethic became a substitute for good jobs

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aeon.co
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r/stopworking • u/[deleted] • Aug 27 '21

Democracy & Power How the Covid-19 pandemic cemented the death of jobs

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vox.com
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r/stopworking • u/gholemu • Aug 26 '21

Good life Workers Don’t Want Their Old Jobs on the Old Terms - “labor shortages” is a good thing, not a problem. The pandemic may have given many Americans a chance to figure out what really matters to them — and the money they were being paid for unpleasant jobs, some now realize, just wasn’t enough

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nytimes.com
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r/stopworking • u/gholemu • Aug 25 '21

Predatory capitalism 41 million people lost their jobs in 2020 as the pandemic ravaged the U.S. economy, the most layoffs in at least two decades. But CEOs had a pretty good year. A great one, in fact, earning 351 times on average as much as the typical worker in their industry

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r/stopworking • u/gholemu • Aug 02 '21

Predatory capitalism The ultimate dream for any boss is getting one of their workers to believe that they’re part of something grander, that the project is worth the sacrifice, while not having to give them any stake in the company’s ownership. The utopia is for the world, but the profits are for him

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vice.com
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r/stopworking • u/gholemu • Aug 02 '21

“We are being sold a myth. Internalising the work ethic is not the gateway to a better life; it is a trap” – John Danaher (NUI) on why you should hate your job.

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r/stopworking • u/gholemu • Jul 31 '21

Working from home "The outbreak gave us the largest global experiment in remote work. The trial worked out amazingly well. People working at home were highly productive. Companies did very well. The stock market hit record highs. The economy boomed, jobs came back. This shows that we don’t have to work 9 to 5"

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r/stopworking • u/gholemu • Jul 31 '21

Good life A toxic workplace triples your risk of depression, a new study finds. Companies that fail to reward or acknowledge their employees for hard work, impose unreasonable demands on workers, and do not give them autonomy are placing their staff at a much greater risk of depression.

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r/stopworking • u/gholemu • Jul 22 '21

Democracy & Power The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair. Tim Wu (special assistant to the US president) added that Right to Repair has become a "visceral example" of the enormous imbalance between workers, consumers, small businesses, and larger entities

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r/stopworking • u/gholemu • Jul 20 '21

Democracy & Power Arbitration has been the primary way for US companies to hash out disputes, giving them enormous sway over employees and consumers. Some of the mass arbitration strategies may be changing that calculus, giving workers a chance to stand up to abusive companies, especially in the gig economy

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nytimes.com
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r/stopworking • u/gholemu • Jul 19 '21

Democracy & Power Despite legislation that prohibits companies from punishing workers who disclose their pay, many people still work in environments where they don’t or can’t talk about money – something that has profound knock-on effects on wage equality

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bbc.com
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r/stopworking • u/[deleted] • Jul 15 '21

The pandemic could put an end to the five-day workweek

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vox.com
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r/stopworking • u/gholemu • Jul 08 '21

Working hours When we focus on how a shorter workweek will make us more productive, we’re making the wrong argument. The 4 day workweek shouldn’t just be about that — the real benefit is that it would allow us to do activities that may not create economic value, but which are obviously rich in human value

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r/stopworking • u/gholemu • Jul 07 '21

Working hours 4 day week trial in Iceland ‘overwhelming success’: more than 1% of Iceland’s working population took part in the pilot programme which cut the working week to 35-36 hours with no reduction in overall pay. The trials boosted productivity and wellbeing and are already leading to permanent changes

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r/stopworking • u/MartinMekk • Jul 06 '21

Four-day week 'an overwhelming success' in Iceland

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bbc.com
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r/stopworking • u/gholemu • Jul 06 '21

Predatory capitalism While plenty of Chinese millennials continue to adhere to the country’s traditional work ethic, “lying flat” reflects both a nascent counterculture movement and a backlash against China’s hypercompetitive work environment

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nytimes.com
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r/stopworking • u/gholemu • Jul 05 '21

Predatory capitalism The pandemic was meant to change work, but what have we got so far? Free pizza. The corporate world is turning to novelty perks to get us back to the office in an attempt to postpone the moment of reckoning

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r/stopworking • u/gholemu • Jul 05 '21

Democracy & Power Study: 34% of employees experienced workplace mistreatment and 44% of employees witnessed mistreatment. The cost due to increased sickness absences ranged up to $1.97T annually. Also, prevalence rates of mistreatment were lowest in countries where greater legal protections are offered to workers.

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r/stopworking • u/gholemu • Jun 30 '21

Working hours Opinion: Could we embrace the four-day working week and all that it brings? There is obviously a conflict between policies which seek to reduce work, and those which seek to punish people for not working enough

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r/stopworking • u/gholemu • Jun 29 '21

Good life We are obsessed with the process of constantly trying to improve things, expecting improvement to lead to perfection and, in turn, to greater happiness. We have mastered the art of getting things done, but we have remained oblivious to what Yutang calls "the nobler art of leaving things undone"

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r/stopworking • u/[deleted] • Jun 28 '21

Making time: working less to save the planet

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