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Lok Yue
almost 5 years ago

Our productivity is low enough as it is. To be competitive we need to work harder and smarter, not less

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John
almost 5 years ago

Working "hard" (ie long hours) has little to do with productivity. Finland has higher productivity (GPD per hour worked) than UK yet they already have shorter average working weeks. People do their best work when they are not exhausted and stressed. Doing longer hours does not necessarily mean doing more work, it just means being at work for longer.We need to change workplace culture and reorganise our economy so that wellbeing is valued above GDP, which is artificially inflated by the finance sector and divorced from the world of zero hours contracts and poverty pay brought about by excessive focus on maximising profit.So much of the work of third sector organisations is made necessary by the UK's backwards approach to employment - we end up living in order to work for the benefit of the wealth ownership class, rather than work being something undertaken voluntarily for social or personal benefit.

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