Five Days Per Week: Excessive
It's been quite some time since the last post, and let me assure you that lack of posts was not due to the inconvenience most know too well: work. On the contrair, the lack of posts was largely due to excessive living.
Excessive is an interesting word. Often, and unfortunately, negatively connotated, the word describes situations we as a society would generally frown upon--excessive eating, excessive spending, excessive affection, etc. Let's remember, however, excessive budgets, excessive time-off, excessive free time are all excessives we (most) desire.
Seven days in a week. Five are considered "work-days". Two are considered week-ends (the name in itself is a lie because in all reality Saturday is the weekend and Sunday is the week begin). 71% of our weeks are spent working. 71%! That's excessive.
What world have we as a society created? Why do we need to spend 71% of our time at work? Are our social lives so boring and inadequate? Or is it that our socio-economic state is dictacted by supply and demand to the point that we feel compelled (or is it forced?) to work for 71% of the time? or perhaps, as it seems most employers justify, 71% of our time is required because people are productive for 30% of the total time spent at work, which would imply the extra time alotment is for time spent dallying. Scam?
Five days per week is excessive. Productivity could be increased with motivation; the solution is not adding more hours in the workplace, but finding ways to be less excessive with futile hours at work and more excessive with helping people enjoy their lives, motivating them to work harder when at work, and allowing them to spend--would 51% be too much to ask?--at their leisure.
Excessive is an interesting word. Often, and unfortunately, negatively connotated, the word describes situations we as a society would generally frown upon--excessive eating, excessive spending, excessive affection, etc. Let's remember, however, excessive budgets, excessive time-off, excessive free time are all excessives we (most) desire.
Seven days in a week. Five are considered "work-days". Two are considered week-ends (the name in itself is a lie because in all reality Saturday is the weekend and Sunday is the week begin). 71% of our weeks are spent working. 71%! That's excessive.
What world have we as a society created? Why do we need to spend 71% of our time at work? Are our social lives so boring and inadequate? Or is it that our socio-economic state is dictacted by supply and demand to the point that we feel compelled (or is it forced?) to work for 71% of the time? or perhaps, as it seems most employers justify, 71% of our time is required because people are productive for 30% of the total time spent at work, which would imply the extra time alotment is for time spent dallying. Scam?
Five days per week is excessive. Productivity could be increased with motivation; the solution is not adding more hours in the workplace, but finding ways to be less excessive with futile hours at work and more excessive with helping people enjoy their lives, motivating them to work harder when at work, and allowing them to spend--would 51% be too much to ask?--at their leisure.
posted by Ryan at 11:27
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