“Incentivize employers and unions to run time-bound 32-hour/four-day workweek pilots with no loss in pay that hold output and service levels constant,” OpenAI recommended in its recent policy paper, Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age: Ideas to Keep People First. “Then convert reclaimed hours into a permanent shorter week, bankable paid time off, or both.” Fortune. This of course assumes that after it becomes a permanent 4 day work week that output and service levels stay permanent as well. But AI Robots will still be working 24/7/365 with no pay or benefits or time off or even sexual harassment lawsuits as well!
But what happens if output and service levels doesn’t stay the same do you really believe that the unions are going to let employers go back to a 5 day work week? NOPE! And what about companies (or countries) who continue to work for 5 days but are getting even better output and service levels than their 4 day working competitors? What a great opportunity for those companies (or countries) to pick up marketshare! And then every city in America will look just like Detroit does! Tell me again why employers have been paying for 5 days worth of work when they could have gotten it in only 4 days instead?
And that is all I’m going to say about that!
Drain the Cesspool 