Re: [FairfieldLife] Time for Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

 

 How will we all keep busy when we only have to work 15 hours a week? That was 
the question that worried the economist John Maynard Keynes when he wrote his 
short essay “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren 
http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf” in 1930. 
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozg...@sbcglobal.net> wrote :

 Some places, like tech companies, employees feel it it as "badge of honor" to 
put in long hours.  My boss said it was probably more a sign of  incompetence.  
And HP study back in the 1990s showed that working anymore than 50 hours a week 
was counter productive.  I knew someone who worked at Microsoft who was 
"salaried" (in California it's called "exempted") and if it took him one day to 
finish his part of the project for the week then it was okay for him not to 
come in the rest of the week.  Computer programming is more like working on a 
piece of art and productivity comes in spurts not 9 to 5.
  
 On 01/10/2016 11:42 AM, emily.ma...@yahoo.com mailto:emily.ma...@yahoo.com 
[FairfieldLife] wrote:

   As a salaried employee, this was much more my experience....(40 to 60, but 
paid for 40).
 

 The "40-Hour" Workweek Is Actually Longer -- by Seven Hours 
 
 
 
 The "40-Hour" Workweek Is Actually Longer -- b... Adults employed full time in 
the U.S. report working an average of 47 hours a week, almost a full workday 
longer than what a standard five-day, 9-to-5 schedu...


 
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 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
<noozguru@...> mailto:noozguru@... wrote :
 
 Of course work is not the purpose of life.  That was an industrial age piece 
of propaganda to keep the chickens busy.  There are lots of things to do other 
than work.
 
 On 01/10/2016 05:07 AM, dhamiltony2k5@... mailto:dhamiltony2k5@... 
[FairfieldLife] wrote:

   
 
 In 1930 the average workweek was 47 hours. By 1970 it had fallen to slightly 
less than 39.
 
 
 How will we all keep busy when we only have to work 15 hours a week?
 

 The Dome doors open for meditation at 7am in Fairfield, Iowa.

 
 
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