🙌 THE 4 DAY WORK WEEK HAS HIT IRELAND WITH ASTONISHING RESULTS. 🙌

[jerseyjim]

15. I'm not surprised...

that the 4 day work week results in higher moral and higher productivity,
Unfortunately, in this country, managers and people at the top think that squeezing as much time and effort from their employees is the way to success. The best recent example is Elon Musk's demand for employees to work long hours and perfection is just the norm.
Many employees are also at fault because working long hours is a badge of honor. They BRAG about being a workaholic. I first observed this when I was interning at a division in the company, having come from a more relaxed division of the same company.
It is also interesting to note that the more relaxed division consisted of electrical engineers designing circuits. The few software people were also treated well there.

The workaholic division was all software development and "maintenance", fixing messy programs originated by so-called gurus in research.

I know someone who not only likes being worked to death, but volunteers for EMS. It is a desire to be needed all the time. I think it's sick. They raise the bar of working time so everybody else is expected to compete. I never bought into that. I left at 5 regardless of what people thought. I was willing to put in extra hours when I felt their was a true emergency.

I am long retired, but I am very pleased to see professionals quitting sweat shops and demanding better treatment.

Not all Twitter employees left for one reason or another. One has to be willing to take a risk and, perhaps, settle for less money.
If you don't have time to enjoy it, there is no point in working harder for extra bucks.