Amazon tells managers they can now fire employees who won’t come into the office 3 times a week::Amazon shared new guidelines that give managers a template for terminating employees over RTO.

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    1 year ago

    This is a tangent, but you ever think about how arbitrary the week structure is? Like, if weeks were 6 or 8 days long, it would be a big shift in work-life balance regardless of how you split the days up. But thousands of years ago we decided on 7 and it just kind of stuck.

    Assuming 8 hour days, here are some different splits for on and off:

    • 3 on 1 off: working 25% of the time
    • 5 on, 2 off: working 23.8% of the time
    • 4 on, 2 off: working 22.2% of the time
    • 5 on 3 off: working 20.8% of the time
    • 4 on 3 off: working 19.0% of the time
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      1 year ago

      This is, perhaps naively, assuming that employers wouldn’t just increase the number of days you’re working. Weeks are now 10 days long, and you work for 7 of them.

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        1 year ago

        I tried to pick ratios that wouldn’t cause riots in the streets, haha. Interestingly, 7-3 is still less work overall than the current standard 5-2. I could get behind a 3-1-4-2 system.