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The BBQ-stopper that just keeps giving...or taking : Comments
By Josh Fear, published 23/11/2010If you're still at work, it's after 5:00 pm and you are reading this - Go Home
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Also, if people waste time by commuting to and from work then following the argument above most people should move to the CBD areas of our capital cities (good luck with rents) or we should demand all corporate offices be brought to the suburbs.
As most people stay quiet, management does not consider the issue of long hours important. If more and more people spoke up then management would be force to deal with the issue. Daunting, but if you are not happy, probably a good time to start looking for a new job.
But, the one thing I have to wholeheartedly agree with is the concept of "flexibility" - we should all be paid for the end-result of our work and not for the outdated concept of "hours worked". Sadly for this to happen it would require a tremendous shift in the way that managers/society/government think. Depending on the industry, telecommuting etc. are great options that really should have taken off already.
Overtime for the sake of overtime is definitely wrong. The Japanese term "karoshi" pretty much says what happens to you: death from overwork.
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