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orlbucfan

T and R x 2, jcb!! ๐Ÿ™‚ Thanks to you and Ms. Benny for doing the yeoperson work hosting our Nest! ๐Ÿ™‚ You bet I caught the Bernster on Maher’s show. Man, Maher is getting more RW (senile?) in his aging years. Very disappointing.

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Push back was excellent on Bernieโ€™s part.

orlbucfan

Agree wholeheartedly. โ˜ฎ๏ธ

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Benny

Unless you are Brainwrap.

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wi65

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orlbucfan

+270! Where’s her ditzo twin, the former (cough, gag) ‘governor of Alaska?

Benny

Or the world is saying “serenity now.”.

Benny

orlbucfan

CPAC(rap) must be hard up for celebs this year.

Benny

Weekend Work Inches Up in Era of Layoffs, Out-of-Office Shifts

In the 1980s, everybody was working for the weekend, or so a hit song from the period proclaimed.

Now, working on the weekend is becoming more commonplace in some sectors as layoffs increase and workers seek time to focus, free from the deluge of meetings and other distractions.

The average hours worked on Saturday and Sunday last year increased 5% to 6.6, according to ActivTrak, which analyzed almost 175 million hours of work across 134,260 anonymized users of its productivity-management software worldwide. While just 5% of all workers tracked toiled on the weekend, certain industries, like technology and media, saw a spike of 25% or more hours worked in 2022 compared with a year earlier. The reasons are twofold: Job cuts that have heaped more work on fewer staffers, along with a need to escape the constant interruptions from the likes of Zoom calls and Slack chats that are part of todayโ€™s increasingly hybrid workplace.

โ€œWith more and more layoff announcements, companies are doing more with less, so where you see an increase in weekend work, itโ€™s in industries that are contracting,โ€ said Gabriela Mauch, vice president of ActivTrakโ€™s productivity lab, which researches trends in its datasets. โ€œAs people become more comfortable with flexibility, itโ€™s acceptable to log off at 3pm on a Friday and deal with the work on the weekend.โ€

The weekend shifts are the latest example of the breakdown in long-held workplace norms wrought by the pandemic, as demands for increased flexibility among employees clash with some employersโ€™ desires to see workers in person at the office more often. While remote work has freed up desk workers in many respects, allowing many to do their job where and when they choose, itโ€™s also tethered them to collaboration and communication tools that can divert their attention with constant notifications. Rising job cuts of late across technology, media and other sectors have also complicated the picture, creating more stress on staffers who are already grappling with record rates of burnout.

The most common weekend warriors were technology staffers in computer hardware and services, according to ActivTrakโ€™s data, along with media workers and those in consumer goods. All of those groups increased their weekend hours last year compared with 2021, most by double-digit percentages. Technology firms have laid off more than 122,000 workers so far this year, according to tracker Layoffs.fyi, and industry leaders like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Marc Benioff have said their workforces need to get more out of fewer workers. Musk, in particular, has told workers to embrace a โ€œhardcoreโ€ culture or leave the company.

Other sectors, like energy, hospitality and health care, saw a decline in weekend toiling. One theory behind the divergence, Mauch said, is that industries with a greater share of creative types could see more value in working over the weekend. Service-focused sectors were also more likely to boost their weekend hours. A broader government survey found Americans spent just 1.1 hours working on the weekend in 2021.

The ActivTrak report also found that the average workday in 2022 spanned ten hours and nine minutes, defined by the stretch between the first and last activity on a workerโ€™s computer. Time spent on focused work declined slightly last year, while minutes spent multi-tasking increased by a similar amount. Workers were more productive and focused in the first half of the year compared with the back half, and Tuesday was the most productive day.

โ€œEvery culture is different,โ€ Mauch said. โ€œAt one organization, seven hours of work might be appropriate, but in others itโ€™s 12.โ€

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orlbucfan

Good godalmighty, when is the craporate greed gonna get wrestled under control???????????? Speaking of idiots propagandized into voting against their own human interests and welfare, here’s a link to a very important read in today’s NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/04/us/politics/panic-fox-news-2020-election.html. People really need to study history. Propaganda runs on certain principles that have been around for centuries. All that changes are the means (bullhorns) and the demagogues. ๐Ÿ™

wi65

Not any time soon ORL-sadly. Its if and when the people in this country realize it’s not really the R v D that’s killing this country. The real war is between the oligarchy and the rest of us. They own most the corgresscritters to get tax breaks, concraprate subsidies and buy off the various govt entities that are supposed to protect all Americans when accidents such as NF happen. They own the weapons of mass deception that keep the US v Them thing going. They constantly keep narratives going that promotes hate and division going -they just change on who it’s time to hate. It’s the classic distraction so the voter doesn’t notice that more laws and weakend regulations were passed to the Oligarchy benefit. Maybe someday Americans will put aside this and really look and see whom is the real problem is- the oligarchy and finally do something about the real problem. Just a footnote in the 1980s there were 15 billionaires in the world, now theirs over 2600 of them and they carry considerable weight on what actual, policy is truly enacted with the congresscritters they own.
They all meet once a year at their super secret “Billionaires” Summit to discuss what they need from the Govts they control, the results are generally not in the rest of us best interest. Sadly it’s we the people thru our ignorance(both sides) that vote the letter and continually re-elect the puppets of the Oligarchy. There are very few congresscritters that actually work for the people these days And those that do get death threats as the media say they are bad for America. Like you Orl many of us are running out of time to see meaningful change in our life time…