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Major tech company will reportedly make top bosses work 6 days a week
SF Gate ^ | 4/30/2024 | By Stephen Council

Posted on 04/30/2024 12:26:01 PM PDT by NohSpinZone

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And I understand this is how management broke the news of the new policy.


1 posted on 04/30/2024 12:26:01 PM PDT by NohSpinZone
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2 posted on 04/30/2024 12:30:26 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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We will make you work longer until morale improves


3 posted on 04/30/2024 12:30:38 PM PDT by JSM_Liberty
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Don’t know if the Korean business culture is like Japan’s. In Japan, male workers are expected to arrive at work before their boss and shouldn’t leave until after he leaves. Wonder if all workers at Samsung are going to be expected to show up on the weekends as well.


4 posted on 04/30/2024 12:31:45 PM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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From what I recall, six-day work is normal with Saturdays being a half day.


5 posted on 04/30/2024 12:32:42 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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How about not working on the weekends, and just making a $4000 refrigerator that doesn’t crap the bed in under a year and result in a multi-billion dollar class-action lawsuit???


6 posted on 04/30/2024 12:33:19 PM PDT by rednesss (fascism is the union,marriage,merger or fusion of corporate economic power with governmental power )
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Just make them work 7 days a week. Those people don’t need a life.


7 posted on 04/30/2024 12:33:44 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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This is the typical dumb response of large companies. Top executives typically just make 3 or 4 decisions a day, most of the time they’re just listening and gathering information. If you’re not getting good results, the thing to do is find smarter executives who can make better decisions.


8 posted on 04/30/2024 12:34:29 PM PDT by proxy_user
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Bad idea. Studies show we all are more productive at 40 hours.

Those working 50-60 hours per week or more burn out and are less productive.


9 posted on 04/30/2024 12:49:32 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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“doesn’t crap the bed”

You sleep with your fridge?


10 posted on 04/30/2024 1:02:51 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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They are really lazy if they are not already working six or seven days a week.

They are the top spot.


11 posted on 04/30/2024 1:17:57 PM PDT by moviefan8 (The noblest art is that of making others happy. - P.T. Barnum)
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Koreans make Japanese look like slackers.


12 posted on 04/30/2024 2:20:55 PM PDT by Rockingham (`)
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Just make them work 7 days a week. Those people don’t need a life.

I was the most minor tech business on the planet and almost always worked 7 days a week. Sold the business. Don't miss it at all.

13 posted on 04/30/2024 2:25:51 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to kill us. Plan to avoid this.)
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“Those working 50-60 hours per week or more burn out and are less productive.”

You wouldn’t have enjoyed IBM.


14 posted on 04/30/2024 2:29:38 PM PDT by dljordan (What do you think?)
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Probably not.

Did IBM have such a culture? Perhaps that’s one reason why they lost Market Dominance and is now in 7th place in technology.


15 posted on 04/30/2024 2:35:52 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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In Japan, male workers are expected to arrive at work before their boss and shouldn’t leave until after he leaves.
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The Japanese must not have this invention.

https://youtu.be/2yhqNCwGVts?si=io2rs1IQaqkKKJ4B


16 posted on 04/30/2024 3:37:26 PM PDT by chickenlips (Neuter your politicians)
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I had to do it for years and years. It’s good to spread it around.


17 posted on 04/30/2024 3:45:37 PM PDT by roving (Deplorable Listless Vessel Trumpist With Trumpitis and a Rainbow Bully)
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This is the management behavior of a fading dinosaur.

If you can't get it right in five days, you aren't going to get it any more right in six.

Now they're going to be recruiting replacements from a shrinking pool of candidates. I've worked in companies that could no longer attract top-tier executive talent and it's not pretty.

18 posted on 04/30/2024 3:57:24 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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In my tier-1 stamping plant, six days and 8 - 12 hours for the shop supervisors was often mandatory.

As for the corporate CEO, I knew his driver and the CEO's hours were typically 6:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., Mon. thru Sat. and he required his other corporate managers to work on Saturdays too.......

19 posted on 04/30/2024 4:07:27 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Uncle Boozie was eaten by cannibals....)
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I once worked 28 days straight for a product intro for Intel.
Much later I worked 93hr weeks for 3 weeks for Intel.
After Obummer got his people inside working HR, I left.
Intel has not been the same company since 2010


20 posted on 04/30/2024 5:47:30 PM PDT by Zathras
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