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[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Profits booming across German manufacturing industry

Yep. There's loads of money, more than enough, for changes like this.

[–] MrMakabar 4 points 1 year ago

Which is why the negotation position of the union also includes a 8.5% wage increase.....

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

They're not going to lose money though, 4 days just means you work slightly longer days and get the 5th off. Why we haven't jumped to this yet is insane...hell they could do 1/2 staff Monday and half Friday and then you would have less traffic, more people going out to small shops and enjoying their time and the company would have people working 5 days a week still...4 day work weeks should have been brought up when we all started working on computers and production jumped %1000

[–] MrMakabar 3 points 1 year ago

This is about 32h instead of 35h. So 8h per day and 4 days per week.