misterremote

> Takuya Hoshino, an economist at the Dai-ichi Life Research Institute, says simply introducing a four-day workweek may not necessarily encourage employees to use their time off in a way that benefits their careers or contributes to the economy.

The idea shouldn't be how this benefits their career and contributes to the economy, but how the individual can live a more balanced and healthy life.

> For employers, while people working four days a week may become more motivated, this may not improve their productivity enough to compensate for the lost workday.

But why do we have to "compensate for the lost workday"? Let's just say that at this point in history we appreciate work-life balance more than before and we'll switch to 4-day weeks with the same paycheck.

Haha, exactly me!

Yeah. And I'm also thinking about the value you give to the world, you know. Like these photo filter apps. How do they improve our life here on Earth.

They rather have negative effects I would say: like a bad impact on teenager's self esteem or something like that.

But yeah, it's our society and it's values :)

I’m often thinking about the same thing, but not only in tech.

Like why this photo filter app boy/girl is super rich + has a lot of free time, and my friend nurse has very little money and works all the time?

But shouldn’t that be totally doable? What’s the argument against that by the employer? Because pay is also 50%

Nice that you brought up the location. I'm in Europe.

There are two sides of me when I think about the salary and location:

1) you write code and produce stuff and it doesn't matter where you live. you can live anywhere you want, just do the job and get paid. from that POV it seems weird to think that one person gets a lot more money than the other for the same output, the same work

2) another POV in me is that your costs are different depending on where you live. so while the salary's number on paper can be the same for people working from different countries, the "worth" of the money is different.

But mostly I tend to agree with POV number 1 I think.

TBH, of course I do know that moderators exist, but I've never consciously thought that it can be really awful what they see (children stuff, suicide, etc)

Why fascinating? :) My reason for not thinking about my hourly price was that I had a very flex schedule. I knew that I got paid very little for my experience, but I finished my tasks really quickly and had a lot of free time.

But when I needed to log my hours, yes – this got me thinking about my hourly price. Because now I just don't do a flat $6k invoice every month, but have to present the hours...