Mr Mullins told MailOnline if workers are able to condense five days of work into four, then they 'weren't really doing five days work before'.
Really? Don't judge people by your own standards.
I think I agree with Longrider here, what a nasty self-aggrandising little man he is.
If 20% of your time in a 5-day week is being wasted in useless form-filling, attending 'diversity' courses and other bureaucratically imposed nonesense, then yes, you can do the productive part of the same job in 4 days.
ReplyDeleteIn the NHS, no doubt, the real week could even be 3 days or less.
The comments at Longrider's place mention the Nuremberg Code. The more that I learn about those trials the more I see them as job interviews. The number of Nazis quietly shipped to America is astounding. Not just the nuclear physicists but medical researchers, chemists, psychologists, man oh man the list goes on.
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ReplyDeleteIndeed, everybody knows that not every minute of an 8 hour or whatever working day is actually spent on productive output. If any means of increasing that productive proportion can be found, everybody benefits.
I well recall having to stay until 5:15 on friday in my first job, and the wailing and gnashing of teeth from certain quarters when the idea of the half day Friday was first mooted.
I also recall (and I still do it) all the odd hours and unpaid overtime I've done to complete the job.
You are either good and dedicated to your job or you are not. The former will do more in an hour than the latter will do in two and that has always been so.
I'm not sure what this obnoxious wannabe mill owner thinks he will do to the latter, but I'm pretty sure I know the effect he will have on the former.
And I would be very suspicious of anybody who cheers him on too loudly
The issue with this 'work more productively for 4 days and get 5 days pay' is that (as usual) those who work in jobs where output is pretty easy to measure will soon find they can't do 5 days work in 4 days and thus won't get their free day off. Whereas the middle classes who work in jobs where the output is pretty hard to quantify will be able to fiddle system and get a free day off for no extra work at all. I mean, exactly how do you quantify the 'output' of a 'diversity advisor'?
ReplyDeleteIt'll be the 'working from home' fiasco all over again. The working classes still have to slave away at their machines, while Jocasta in HR gets her Fridays off, and no-one gets their pay on time or their expenses paid promptly because she's really only working 4 days a week but still getting paid for 5.
How exactly would it work for a receptionist for example? How can they fit 5 days of manning the reception desk into 4? How about a fireman? Is he supposed to get all the fires to occur in the days when he's at work?
Its just a middle class work avoidance scheme.
"If 20% of your time in a 5-day week is being wasted in useless form-filling, attending 'diversity' courses and other bureaucratically imposed nonesense..."
ReplyDeleteUgh, how I wish mine was ONLY 20%...
"The more that I learn about those trials the more I see them as job interviews. "
Operation Paperclip gets all the attention, but it clearly wasn't the only such scheme...
"You are either good and dedicated to your job or you are not. The former will do more in an hour than the latter will do in two and that has always been so."
Just so!
"I mean, exactly how do you quantify the 'output' of a 'diversity advisor'?"
Why would any business voluntarily employ someone whose output couldn't be quantified?