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New Zealand Firm's Four-Day Week an 'Unmitigated Success' (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The New Zealand company behind a landmark trial of a four-day working week has concluded it an unmitigated success, with 78% of employees feeling they were able to successfully manage their work-life balance, an increase of 24 percentage points. Two-hundred-and-forty staff at Perpetual Guardian, a company which manages trusts, wills and estate planning, trialled a four-day working week over March and April, working four, eight-hour days but getting paid for five. Jarrod Haar, professor of human resource management at Auckland University of Technology, found job and life satisfaction increased on all levels across the home and work front, with employees performing better in their jobs and enjoying them more than before the experiment. Work-life balance, which reflected how well respondents felt they could successfully manage their work and non-work roles, increased by 24%. In November last year just over half (54%) of staff felt they could effectively balance their work and home commitments, while after the trial this number jumped to 78%. Staff stress levels decreased by 7 percentage points across the board as a result of the trial, while stimulation, commitment and a sense of empowerment at work all improved significantly, with overall life satisfaction increasing by 5 percentage points.
APK thinks he's an unmitigated success because he works zero days per week and spends his entire life spamming Slashdot. Those of us who work are do-nothing "ne'er-do-wells" according to APK.
America is a continent, not a country. You must mean USian.
Do you really think these posts are what your life should be? Imagine what you could be doing right now!
I understand that assholes hurt you. Yes. Assholes they are.
But as long as you stick to this path, they got you. You're in a hamster wheel that they made, thinking you're getting at them, killing your life in the process.
If you really want to get at them, just don't let them catch you, and show you masterfulness at plowing through towards your own happy dreams, leaving them entirely powerless.
I mean this from the heart. Not trolling. Actually serious.
Yes, I value your life just as high as mine.
America is a continent, not a country. You must mean USian.
America is well known as a shorthand for the Unites States of America. If you have a problem with well known shortened names, why did you use 'USian' instead of 'USAian'? US is an abbreviation for just United States, which is just as ambiguous as America if you are unwilling to accept common shorthand naming conventions. Plenty of countries are made up of a collection of states.
The term America nearly always means the USA, to the point where anyone not meaning the USA shouldn't be using that term. They would be more accurate by saying 'The Americas' if they meant the entire dual continents, or should be more specific by naming North America, South America, Latin America, or the specific countries they are referring to. But if someone says America, the mean the largest nation in the Americas: the USA. That is the accurate usage of the word in the English language.
If you disagree, do an informal survey by asking a dozen people to locate America on the map. I doubt you will find many people who point the entire Americas, and it's likely everyone who points to both continents as a whole are intentionally making some political point instead of trying to accurately answer your question (or perhaps just don't have English as their first language).
-- All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -- Edmund Burke