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Why you should start work at 10am (unless you're in your 50s)
Nice idea. I happen to have a professional background in HR (training), so if anyone has any specific questions, I'll try my best to find an answer.
In the (curricular) internship I did, I used to start the working day at somewhere between 9:30 AM and 10:00 AM, since the bosses were younger (in their 30's, basically). The professional interns used to appear even a bit later than 10:00 AM (especially after they had come from filming some festivals or events the day before).
So, upvote for the 10:00 AM idea (11:00 AM might a bit too late, though it's understandable for those who are quite young).
edited 13th Sep '15 4:32:18 PM by Quag15
A procrastination in of itself
That commuting thing has been taken massively out of context by the press. The ruling wasn't that you must be paid for your commuting time, it was that if you have a job without an office or actual place of work then you work starts from when you are called to attend a situation, not when you arrive there. It was focused mainly on care workers, who will often be based at their homes instead of an office, they will then be called out to a care home or such to attend to someone, but they will only be paid for the time at the care home instead of for the time from the moment they are called.
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We have a job search thread and an economics thread where this topic crops up a lot, and I thought it would be great to discuss it on its own. The rights, entitlements, and needs of employees, on one hand, and the needs of a business to remain productive and efficient, and how the conflict between "people having a good job" and "people having a job at all" can be resolved.
We'll kick off with this interesting piece of news: A court has ruled that time spent traveling to and from work is “work”
. This is especially interesting in light of the fact that long commutes are a crucial factor in people's (un)happiness!
Psychologists aren't entirely sure why people so consistently under-count the pain of commuting. Maybe it's because it's viewed as "in-between" time rather than as an activity on its own; maybe it's because it comes in relatively short and individually bearable chunks repeated over many years, instead of as a single entity. In any case, unless you are mentally atypical you will probably have a tendency to undercount commute time when buying a new home, and may want to adjust for that tendency.
Commutes are stress that doesn't pay
, and maybe it's high time it does get compensated.
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