Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 21:34:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: pfg1+@pitt.edu (Pedro F. Giffuni) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is Brett Glass to easy on RMS? Message-ID: <200105072134.OAA15561@usr06.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <3AF5167C.6B88C588@pitt.edu> from "Pedro F. Giffuni" at May 06, 2001 05:16:44 AM
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> In the US the policy has been that of increasing the number of hours > in the work week. This has been done despite studies done in europe > with HP and Volkswagen where it was actually showed that hiring people > for half shifts increased productivity. > > This situation is becoming standard in all industries, not just in > software or in Microsoft. The book "End of Work" mentions that all > this modern techniques of continuous improvement, are just ways in > which employees find better ways to be exploited. We are doomed. It's an economic issue. The cost per employee is very high in the U.S.; in Europe, most of that cost is hidden in the tax system, where everyone pays a high tax rate for things like socialized medicine, which, in the U.S., is a per employee business cost, etc.. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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