this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2023
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[–] tintory@lemm.ee 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Who knew that working people less means they have time to have kids?

[–] Xenon@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's always amazing to see study after study confirming totally obvious relationships yet policy makers and corporations still choose to ignore all of it.

[–] KitsuneHaiku@ttrpg.network 5 points 1 year ago

Who cares that they will have 20% fewer workers in 2+ decades when you could have 2% more profit this year?

[–] Jubi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

And yet corporations rely heavily on their shill research study findings to advertise

[–] marche_ck@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

After millenia of human civilization, it took Big Data and AI to finally lead us to this answer/s

[–] VanillaGorilla@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It really wouldn't be an issue if workplace sex was easily possible. If you spend the whole day there you might at least multitask and make new workers while inputting data into Excel.

[–] marche_ck@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Office sex DOES exist, but only accessible by the higher echelons of corporate management ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[–] Tolstoshev@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hoping Japan is paying attention

[–] Zorque@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Well considering I saw another post talking about investing in AI and UBI, one can hope.

[–] donut4ever@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

Oh wow, who woulda thunk it? People working less is good for them? Damn, I need to get out more.

[–] VanillaGorilla@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haven't they just increased max working hours?

[–] randon31415@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The 69 hours a week bill got defeated. Apparently someone suggested 69 as a way of getting more babies, and the PM was like "hours of work a week? Deal!"

[–] VanillaGorilla@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope you're not joking, that's hilarious

[–] randon31415@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That the bill got defeated, and that the cap was 69 hours of work is true. Sadly, the rest was a joke.

[–] VanillaGorilla@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I feared so