{"id":2724,"date":"2020-11-20T16:46:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T16:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socialchangeschool.org\/2020\/11\/m-crescenzi-fair-working-beyond-smart-working-work-less-work-better-work-almost-all\/"},"modified":"2024-03-18T14:09:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T14:09:21","slug":"m-crescenzi-fair-working-beyond-smart-working-work-less-work-better-work-almost-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialchangeschool.org\/en\/20\/11\/2020\/m-crescenzi-fair-working-beyond-smart-working-work-less-work-better-work-almost-all\/","title":{"rendered":"M. Crescenzi: &#8220;Fair Working&#8221; &#8211; beyond Smart Working. Work less, work better, work (almost) all."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3>Article by<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.socialchangeschool.org\/en\/faculty\/marco-crescenzi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marco Crescenzi<\/a>, President of Social Change School<\/h3>\n<p>Is it still sustainable to work 8 hours a day? 8 hours that of course become 10-11 between lunch breaks, transport, and small overtime. Hours that end up stressing and depressing couples, family, and social relationships, and increasing management costs by 10-20% (babysitter, takeout food, etc). Even in the <strong>Third Sector<\/strong>, organizational intoxication due to <strong>self-exploitation \u201cfor the cause\u201d<\/strong> has reached its peak, also due to invasive home working.<\/p>\n<p>In \u201c<strong>The Burnout Society<\/strong>\u201d the philosopher Byung-Chul Han dramatically analyses how we are becoming more and more our own <strong>victims\/executioners<\/strong>. We have gone from a \u201c<strong>Disciplinary Society<\/strong>\u201d (&#8220;I must&#8221;) to a \u201c<strong>Performance Society<\/strong>\u201d (&#8220;I can&#8221;), from subjects of (external) <strong>obedience<\/strong> to subjects of <strong>performance<\/strong> (and burn out). <strong>We have internalized hyper-performance as a value<\/strong> <strong>and measure of ourselves<\/strong>. What, in my youthful readings, was Marcuse\u2019s <strong>One-Dimensional Man<\/strong>, is now (we are) a two-faced monster; one is the \u201c<strong>hyper-consumer<\/strong>\u201d and the other is the \u201c<strong>hyper-worker<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What should we do? Work (and consume) less. Better. (Almost) all.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I believe we will have to reflect, also basing ourselves on a growing number of international experiences, on setting a limit of 30\/32 hours per week (flexible part time), compared to 40 hours of a full contract. It means 25% of time gained (a four-day work week, the wonder of having a free Friday or Monday! Or maybe 6-hour long workdays with no lunch break &#8211; e.g. 8.30-14.30 &#8211; except for those with different needs). With the same wages if we reach the same goals by working more efficiently, or with small salary cuts that on a part time would not be more than 15-20%, \u00a0maybe it will make employees save on babysitting, or cars, or other costs caused by having \u201ctoo little time\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[273],"class_list":["post-2724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorial","tag-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialchangeschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialchangeschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialchangeschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialchangeschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialchangeschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialchangeschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialchangeschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialchangeschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialchangeschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialchangeschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}