Re: [OM] Working hours

[Andrew Fildes]

Don't confuse hours with productivity - the 8 hour day campaign laid  
that one to rest in the late eighteen hundreds.
And more recently, the Japanese salarymen who didn't dare leave work  
early for fear of being thought lazy or uncommitted.
Can we assume that the American 'minimum wage' workers are motivated  
and productive, given that it's almost a new version of the old  
Chinese 'iron rice bowl' technique or what we'd call a 'work for the  
dole' scheme.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



On 03/05/2009, at 11:02 AM, John Hudson wrote:

> The idea of greater European productivity is a
> piece of complete fiction.

-- 
_________________________________________________________________
Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus
Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/
Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/