[b]Shorter Working Hours...???[/b]
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When I was young....I remembered watching my mom "leaving" me every morning....to "somewhere"......I always wondered and asked myself....."Why is she leaving me??? Where is she going every morning???" You see, my mom was a school teacher.....every morning she left us at our aunt's before going to school. That was her daily routine. I could see the sad look on her face. Just as sad as I was....yet she would eventually leave. After kissing me through the bannister on the verandah....she would leave for work. One day....I actually asked her these questions.....and she replied to me that "she had to go to work..." I didn't really understood what she meant by "I have to go to work"....what was that thing called "work"??? All I knew then was I had this terrible feeling within....I hated seeing her leave....I hated seeing her go.... I only came to realise the meaning of why people went to work only when I grew up, of course. But...wouldn't it be nice if we could just work for shorter hours everyday....just so that we could spend more time with our family and loved ones...??? Anyway....it was just a thought...
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if u treat your job as a hobby
u dun work a single day
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lol, i see that on t-shirts and dun believe a word of it. . . at least not in most cases. . .Originally posted by jinfa:if u treat your job as a hobby
u dun work a single day
anyway, back to the original topic
the remaking singapore committee suggested it but of course our fantastic govt gave excellent reasons why we should continue labouring away for hours on end. cos singapore gotta be competitive and other countries workers are equally hardworking and theres an economic downturn and some other trash i can't remember. . .
but i'm still a student now so i'm cool with it. . . . . . . . for now anyway. . . -
Oh how I envy you, Laser.Originally posted by laser51088:lol, i see that on t-shirts and dun believe a word of it. . . at least not in most cases. . .
anyway, back to the original topic
the remaking singapore committee suggested it but of course our fantastic govt gave excellent reasons why we should continue labouring away for hours on end. cos singapore gotta be competitive and other countries workers are equally hardworking and theres an economic downturn and some other trash i can't remember. . .
but i'm still a student now so i'm cool with it. . . . . . . . for now anyway. . .
But back to the topic, it would really be wonderful if the 'norm' number of working hours could be effectively cut down to faciliate more freed up hours for use into leisure or family bonding.
Given proper scheduling, I dun see how we must slog like cows from 8.30 to 6.00pm everyday from Mondays to Fridays, and sometimes on alternate Saturdays in order to stay competitive.
On the contary, I believe that in order to gain upon levels of even higher scales in traditional benchmarking values such as competitiveness and creativity, people would need even more free time off on their own, for the porpose of thinking and evaluation.
A mentalily alert and healthy workforce is a more productive, efficient, and effective one.
Thru the utilization of teleworking or compressed work week concepts, a staff who is given the option and trust to carry out his/her duties from home would be able to save on hours that they would have otherwise wasted on the daily travelling.
Say this staff takes about 2 hours to travel to work.
In one day, the staff would have spent 4 hours on the roads.
If a teleworking option was availble and that subsequent arrangements were possible to allow for 3 days whereby the staff is allowed to telework, the saving in hours would have amounted to 12 hours for a regular 5 days work week.
Alternatively, the option of compressed work week would also be highly feasibly, since to some extend, all that it does is that it reseambles OT without the pay.
Given an option, I would have certainly chose to work a 'Monday to Thursday' week, with Monday to Wednesday workday beginning from 8.30 am to end at maybe 9.30 pm or so.
By preference, I would rather have 3 whole days off, free to do whatever I wish, be it going out with family or friends, or simply just nuaing at home and reading a good book.
With a systematic rotation schedule assisting such schemes, it would also be both possible and realistic for more private and public sector to even maintain counters open for operations even on Saturdays, Sundays, or even public holidays.
In view of such, wouldn't such an arrangement serve to better enhance on both productivity, as well as to provide for that valuable frame of time which all of us need badly to spend with our family and friends?
At the end of the day, it all however, still bows down to one main important factor.
And that is, would the public sector choose to endorse on such new working arrangements on a more wider range as compared to the current tiny numbers in practice?
Given a clear signal of support, I'm sure much of the private sector organizations too, would be interested to follow up and endorse onto this new 'winning' formula too. -
you heard that piece of decayed crap, lau lee's son, say something akin to being over his cold dead body before singapore will adopt a 5 day work week...
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Prehaps they are worry about having no one around to man the service counters during Saturdays.
But if they implement some sort of 'Tuesday to Saturday', and 'Sunday to Thurdays' work week, wouldn't this effectively solved their concern too?
The conventional 'Monday to Friday' norm isn't exactly a universal standard, you know. -
that was suggested...
before they finished, a flat NO came from the powers that be...Originally posted by [ Neo ]:Prehaps they are worry about having no one around to man the service counters during Saturdays.
But if they implement some sort of 'Tuesday to Saturday', and 'Sunday to Thurdays' work week, wouldn't this effectively solved their concern too?
The conventional 'Monday to Friday' norm isn't exactly a universal standard, you know. -
They said 'No'?Originally posted by the Bear:that was suggested...
before they finished, a flat NO came from the powers that be...
>sob sob..<
Now cannot got to Sentosa on Saturday with the Sians already... -
eh? civil service?
i think they have flexi-hours or something like that, gives you 2 weekends off?Originally posted by [ Neo ]:They said 'No'?
>sob sob..<
Now cannot got to Sentosa on Saturday with the Sians already... -
Not too sure about this in practice across all the civil service. Only know that some examples such as CPF, NLB, etc engages them.Originally posted by the Bear:eh? civil service?
i think they have flexi-hours or something like that, gives you 2 weekends off?
The others literally never heard of such at all, except under special circumstances.