Work Martyrs: 69% of Millenials "ashamed" to take a vacation!

[Gandalf]

Also everyone works uber type jobs these days so they don't have vacation time

Which is really not a good thing. In the 1960's scientists were telling us how great the future would be because of technology and how people would be working 3 day working weeks. Instead there are not enough well paying jobs and people find themselves juggling extra jobs just to survive. Not only that, but there are no pensions and job security is almost non-existent and people are shipped in from overseas who will work for less as the minimum wage in the west is 5 times more than where they came from. It is a very rigged system. Someone was telling me that few of the taxi drivers in the UK are British anymore. That is such an odd thing. You see it in hotels too. There are no British people working there on the desks.

3 day weeks? And Political Correctness is already insane.....do you know how much free time a 3 day work week would give people to bellyache?


Work is good, overworking is bad, but underworking is just as damaging....it's all about balance man

It is about balance, but the scales have tipped too far. Not working is damaging, but on the flipside, you have people juggling 3 jobs just trying to do the 'right thing'. Then you have corporate executives earning money that is just not justified and others watching TV all day on welfare. It is all about balance and there is little balance.

3 days a week is plenty. It then gives the person time to raise their family and educate themselves which seem to be missing elements in Western societies these days. The problem with that though is that strong families, knowledge and awareness is a threat to the system and must never be allowed.

[walrus]

I agree the uberazation of employment gives more benefit to the employer than the employee. As far as three day work weeks go I work three twelve to fourteen hour days.

[Gandalf]

If we could care less about profits and shareholders, you could use that money to provide advantages to more people. Have some working 3 days then a different group working a different 3 days. Double those in emplyment and use the profits to pay them instead of rip off CEO's and shareowners. Collectives in the interest of all. Everyone works and everyone gets free time. It would have to be forced as companies know only how to extract and use their workers.