From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 7 14:29:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78E9937B42C for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 14:29:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr06.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA07131; Mon, 7 May 2001 14:22:20 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAWjaO2n; Mon May 7 14:22:16 2001 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA15561; Mon, 7 May 2001 14:34:53 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200105072134.OAA15561@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Is Brett Glass to easy on RMS? To: pfg1+@pitt.edu (Pedro F. Giffuni) Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 21:34:53 +0000 (GMT) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3AF5167C.6B88C588@pitt.edu> from "Pedro F. Giffuni" at May 06, 2001 05:16:44 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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