Why weekends are under threat

incognito124

The week is not _completely_ a human invention, it is, conveniently, a period between two moon phases

AznHisoka

This is content marketing from Hubspot. I dont need to hear opinions on how to live my life from a billion dollar company.

delichon

Clickbait title. The article never gets around to how weekends are under threat. The closest it comes is to say that a lot of us have to check email on Saturdays.

shevy-java

> The data from Google search queries became a competitive advantage that allowed Google to continually improve its search algorithm and ad targeting. This kind of refers to the past though. Anyone who is using Google search these days, curses how unbelievably useless it has become. This is how monopolies ruin the segment they dominate. If there were real competition, Google would improve the search engine, or it would go extinct, and be replaced by something better. The whole article is written really strangely. Was that written by AI? There seems to be some disconnect in the writing itself.

zouhair

Livable wage is under threat. Week ends are the least of it. Millions working full time jobs can't pay their bills anymore.

nicbou

The article does not answer its own question, or say anything, really. In a sufficiently competitive environment, players abandon a value for a temporary advantage. When other players follow suit, that value is gone, but the playing field is still level, and everyone is worse off. Weekends are under threat because our jobs are. Everyone's keeping their head down to make it through the next round of layoffs, to avoid getting replaced by AI, to avoid a protracted job search. Related: https://www.slatestarcodexabridged.com/Meditations-On-Moloch

gonzalohm

This is such an American problem. I moved from the EU to the US so I have always been pretty strict with work hours. I finish at 17 and don't work on weekends. I have applied the same approach in the US and I have never had anyone tell me that I have to put in more hours. However, I see a lot of movement over the weekend and at weird times (people working past midnight). But the thing is that no one is really forcing them, I think this way of thinking is embedded within the average American relationship with work. I have observed this in my wife too. She stays past her contract hours but mostly because a lot of people in her company do the same. I think this is a "self reinforcing peer pressure problem"

lkey

Tech workers need to unionize. You aren't petit bourgeois any longer. Corps aren't even pretending y'all are not a fungible as everyone else now that they smell blood in the water. Before I left my previous company the CEO waxed philosophical about adopting the 996, even as we had above target profits for then nth quarter in a row and layoffs rolling over every department.

OutOfHere

As an experiment, consider if we get rid of both the clock and the calendar, leaving us only with Unix time (which is utterly incomprehensible without a calendar or clock reference). Timers would still work. Actions would then be more ad-hoc. The simple change would likely lower stress tenfold, and this is what can be measured. How then would appointments work? Day offsets (from 0 to 2) would still easily work. People wanting to come in to see a specialist would just have to call/contact, then come in at any time of the day. Some would come in earlier in the day, and some would come in later in the day, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, and things would work out. Everything would likely be slowed down in the immediate sense, but would this be so bad? Odds are that no; it would probably add much to happiness, and perhaps become more sustainable. How would a big passenger airplane even depart? It wouldn't, and that's okay. Cargo planes and other dedicated airplanes would remain unaffected because they can depart when there is sufficient mass. It would be like a return to old times, maybe to an extreme version of Italy. The early chaos, if managed aptly, would soon manifest as a longer and healthier life.

M95D

An article written for extroverts. I will be happy to spend my all weekends during the work days of everybody else.