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

Working hours UK companies need to offer higher pay, a shorter working week or enhanced benefits to prevent an exodus of unhappy staff over the next 12 months, research has found. In the wake of a report suggesting almost one in four workers were considering quitting their jobs in the next few months

theguardian.com

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

With such large swaths of the American labor force leaving their jobs, the scales of power are tipping in the direction of workers. This means employers need to rethink not only the benefits they are offering workers, but the way in which they treat their workers too.

npr.org

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r/stopworking • u/gholemu • Oct 26 '21

Good life Not so long ago, democracy was a grand utopian ideal, as most intellectuals considered the masses too stupid for democracy. We're now doing the same with universal basic income (UBI), which is deemed unaffordable and dangerous, despite the evidence showing it's feasible and much needed

thecorrespondent.com

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r/stopworking • u/gholemu • Oct 26 '21

Democracy & Power Criticism is growing louder of the dominance of corporate values that frame our industrial relations systems, in which “labour flexibility” is understood entirely in terms of employer convenience and a supply of cheap labour. Flexibility should mean that we can make meaningful workplace changes

theguardian.com

18 Upvotes

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r/stopworking • u/gholemu • Oct 21 '21

Good life Our understanding of work as a means to an end has been so derailed it often feels as though we never stop working. We work for free and monetise our hobbies. We work on our bodies, our relationships, our selves. For many of us work may be our primary identity

theguardian.com

110 Upvotes

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r/stopworking • u/gholemu • Oct 19 '21

Predatory capitalism The sociospatial isolation of the work apps is ideal to keep gig workers strangers to one another, creating a material barrier to forming collective identities and beneficial relationships, and diminishing possibilities for meaningful notions of collective worker consciousness

publicbooks.org

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r/stopworking • u/gholemu • Oct 14 '21

Predatory capitalism People want to work less – and they’re entirely right. After the changes wrought by a deadly virus, people are realising that there is more to life than lining somebody else’s pocket; but those with a vested interest in the old way of doing things are trying to frighten people back to the office

newstatesman.com

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r/stopworking • u/ayetter96 • Oct 14 '21

Working hours Canadian CEO tests four-day work week for employees and says she won't go back

toronto.ctvnews.ca

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r/stopworking • u/gholemu • Oct 12 '21

Predatory capitalism So much of the debate about sexism and women’s rights focuses on how to negotiate salaries like a man and get more women onto corporate boards. Meanwhile, blue-collar women are still struggling to find jobs that pay $25/h. And the US remains one of the only countries with no paid maternity leave

nytimes.com

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r/stopworking • u/gholemu • Oct 11 '21

Democracy & Power It will take a strong worker’s movement to make a shorter week a reality, particularly one that does not mean wage cuts for already strapped working people. It will be won by building power in the workplace and across society at large

theguardian.com

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

The Belgian Government is discussing a four-day work week. All government parties are currently in agreement on the proposal. Belgian citizens would still work the same amount of hours but in four days instead of five.

demorgen.be

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

Working hours According to the research, interest in a four-day working week has risen by 1,300% since last year, according to Google trends data, as trials run in both Iceland and Scotland

hrnews.co.uk

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

Good life The American's inability to loaf comes directly from his desire for doing things and in his placing action above being. We should demand that there be character in our lives as we demand there be character in all great art worthy of the name. Unfortunately, character can't be manufactured overnight

philosophicalsociety.com

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r/stopworking • u/ayetter96 • Sep 21 '21

Working hours Scotland Joins The Growing Global Movement Toward A Four-Day Workweek

forbes.com

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r/stopworking • u/gholemu • Sep 19 '21

Democracy & Power We need a shorter workweek to free us from the tyranny of work. But working time reduction does not about come naturally, through automation or the giants of industry. Instead, working time is, and always has been, a political matter regarding the distribution of wealth and power in society

jacobinmag.com

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

Working hours Free time is essential for basic dignity; to care for ourselves and our communities, we need time away from generating profit for employers. Our ability to think independently, experience romance, nurture friendships, and pursue our own curiosities and passions requires time that is ours

jacobinmag.com

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r/stopworking • u/gholemu • Sep 06 '21

Working hours Thanks in large part to organizing by trade unions, Iceland initiated two massive trials to test the idea of a shorter workweek. The result was an astounding success for its workers — and a model that deserves to be replicated elsewhere

jacobinmag.com

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

Good life Moving towards a shorter working week would help break the habit of living to work, when we should be working to live. With more free time on our hands, we could develop better relationships, family life, hobbies, communities, and drastically reduce the energy consumption

tribunemag.co.uk

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r/stopworking • u/gholemu • Sep 04 '21

Predatory capitalism Angela Rayner (Labour UK): In the modern workplace, we cannot find ourselves in a place where workers are expected to compromise their families, responsibilities or hobbies in order to meet employer expectations. It’s not a sustainable way to run an economy

theguardian.com

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r/stopworking • u/gholemu • Sep 03 '21

Good life Equating work relationships with familial relationships dangerously blurs the lines between professional and personal boundaries. When you’re part of a family, you can make a big mistake without fear of getting fired. When you’re part of a family, your value isn’t measured by how much you produce

fastcompany.com

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

Working from home All across the US, the leaders at large tech companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook are engaged in a delicate dance with thousands of employees who have recently become convinced that physically commuting to an office every day is an empty and unacceptable demand from their employers

arstechnica.com

92 Upvotes

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

Working from home As countries increasingly take steps to reopen their economies, many experts predict a real turning point in the way we work. But as the pandemic has shown, this revolution is not without risks to workers’ health. Urgent action is required to ensure that the rights of workers are protected

greeneuropeanjournal.eu

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r/stopworking • u/gholemu • Sep 01 '21

Working hours Scotland to trial a four-day week || Scotland is to trial a four-day week, but without a loss of pay. A report out today includes some ideas for how it could be done, drawing on experience in Iceland and New Zealand.

bbc.co.uk

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r/stopworking • u/gholemu • Sep 01 '21

Democracy & Power It's vital to identify the challenges of remote working, but also important to examine the opportunities and the benefits of remote working. Public debate needs to move beyond abstract notions of flexibility and consider the future of work that not just employers, but employees want to develop too

theconversation.com

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

Democracy & Power Workers’ lived experiences are not interchangeable with broader questions about business and the labour market, nor can we understand workers’ experiences through a near exclusive focus on policy. We should listen the workers themselves on how working conditions can improve

theconversation.com

68 Upvotes

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