Wow, this from a Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette editorial:
JEERS to lazy Hoosier workers. The results of a survey conducted by America Online and Salary.com show that Hoosiers waste an average of 2.8 hours a day at work. According to the survey, only Missouri workers wasted more time at work. The top time-wasters at work: Internet surfing and socializing with co-workers. Hoosiers have already suffered accusations that we are fat and dumb. It would be a shame to add lazy to Indiana’s reputation.
Sounds to me like a recommendation for a shorter work day. If the amount of work that Employee X is getting done in a day is worth, say, $80 to you, and if the employee can get a work day’s amount of work done in 5 hours, seems like there ought to be a way to pay folks $80 to get the work done in 5 hours and then let them go, then you’ve effectively raised their wage from $10/hour to $16/hour, gotten the same amount of work accomplished, and given the worker 3 hours of their life back.
(Incidentally, I see a lot of holes in that theory, but it’s something to think about, I suppose.)
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