THERE IS A HELL! - - - IT IS CALLED RETAIL ARE YOU AFRAID OF LOSING YOUR JOB?

ARE YOU AFRAID OF LOSING YOUR JOB? 2: I’m not knocking anybody else’s lifestyle and financial decisions. This is simply an observation of something that I discovered mostly by accident but which works incredibly well for me. Maybe you would be terribly miserable living in a small apartment or bungalow instead of a huge house or mansion. . But I know that many people feel trapped in jobs they don’t like because their financial situation is precarious and leaves them no wiggle room. If that’s the case for you maybe you should consider trying the low-rent life and granting yourself some financial freedom. It’s a huge step towards more happiness at work and in life. The cult of overwork is the prevailing belief that the more hours people work, the better for the company. That notion is not only harmful, it is dead wrong. When demand for a product is down, normally a company fires some people and makes the rest work twice as hard. So we put it to a vote of everyone in the plant. Back in the 80’s I worked for an Austrian/German Company where the management asked its employees what they wanted to do: layoffs for some workers or thirty-two-hour workweeks for everyone. They (the employees thought about it and decided they’d rather hold the team together. So we went down to a thirty-two-hour-a-week schedule for everyone furring a down time. We took everybody’s hours and salary down – executives too. I discovered two surprises. First, productivity did not decline. Would you believe it that the company got as much out of the employees at thirty-two hours as they did at forty? So it’s not a bad business decision. But second, when economic conditions improved, they offered the employees one hundred percent time again. When this happened; No one wanted to go back! Never in the wildest dreams would the managers have designed a four-day week. But it’s endured at the insistence of our employees. Interesting, huh? They cut back work-hours but production remains the same. LIFE IS A BEACH If You Want It To Be dodie ste®eo p®odu©tion ™ Page 11 of 11

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