[alt text: a photo of two kids sliding down two separate playground slides (chutes) that are side-by-side but end in the same place. The left slide is captioned: "Being a slacker at work". The right side is captioned: "Being the go-to-guy at work". The bottom part where the slides meet is labeled: "No raises".]
I've been saying this in response to a lot of things lately, but.. people are emotional. It's an emotional problem. Management feels a way, mostly contempt, and any studies about how treating people better would be cost-effective don't matter. Studies show that a 4-day workweek is good for productivity and profits? Nope, feels wrong, can't be true.
Essentially, people are stupid and I don't know how to fix it. Can't just bop a CEO on the nose with a newspaper when he's being bad, unfortunately.
Heh, bopping them on the nose with the newspaper would be pretty sick though.
I hope the whole 4 day work week eventually takes off. That would be wonderful. A whole extra day to recharge. Amazing.
You're probably right about it being an emotional issue. It's probably difficult to accept that doing something like that could help produce better results.