#jobs with work life balance

[reasonsforhope]

"A group of 200 UK businesses and charities have signed a pledge that company work weeks will be shortened to 4 days without a loss in pay

Including marketing and advertisement; tech, it, and software; and charity groups as well, the companies employ more than 5,000 people.

Organized by the 4 Day Week Foundation, it follows something less than a trend but more than a fad in which a mixture of employees and executives believe that a happier, more balanced workforce is key to driving productivity.

That balance, they would argue, can be achieved by far more people through the reduction of the 5-day work week to a 4-day one.

“[With] 50% more free time, a four-day week gives people the freedom to live happier, more fulfilling lives,” Joe Royle, the foundation’s campaign director, told the Guardian.

“As hundreds of British companies and one local council have already shown, a four-day week with no loss of pay can be a win-win for both workers and employers.”

This sentiment isn’t shared by all workplaces, but market competition should demonstrate over time whether or not firms that implement unorthodox work hours are in fact as productive or more so than traditional ones.

Economics says that with all else being equal, if enjoying more free time leads to greater employee retention and motivation, then these 4-day work week firms will begin to out-complete the old ones, which in turn will be forced to adapt or risk losing market share.

London firms have been the most enthusiastic, with 59% of the 200 workplaces being located in the capital. With so many firms for talented workers to choose from, it’s no wonder that some are looking to seek advantage in attracting this talent through more desirable working terms.

Last year, GNN reported extensively on a report that was released by a county government in Washington called San Juan, detailing their one-year experiment with a 32-hour, or 4-day work week. In the report, quitting and retiring decreased by 48%, while 55% of employees said their workflow wasn’t interrupted even though they lost an entire working day’s worth of time to complete it.

Even in the famously hard-working nation of Japan, a 4-day workweek seems to strengthen productivity."

-via Good News Network, January 28, 2025

[ranjith11]

Quitting Is Not a Solution to Anything | Walt Hampton

🌟Work is an important part of our life. Every work has its dignity and importance. Boredom from working is a natural factor. But quitting is not a solution to anything.

[unbfacts]

[snakeeyesandangelfeathers]

Ok but Aziraphale's face when he finds out Beelzebub and Gabriel are together??

He suddenly sees a Proof it's possible for an angel and a demon to love each other, no problem, no punishment, just them ending up Happy and Together and In love.

You can see the Hope light up in his eyes, when he's been loving Crowley all these years, and he's been getting ready to tell him recently and now he can see right in front of him he's really allowed to love him freely??

This boy was so about to confess

[tenvishund]

F I S S I O N - Why the hell do you hurt yourself for this?

[doom-dreaming]

googling "how to feel like a person during the winter"

[jerreeeeeee]

i don’t know if i’m ever gonna write the fic but i’ve been thinking abt like. the eternal stockade. the implications. lup, a lich who was trapped in a dark featureless cell for a decade completely isolated with nothing to keep her sanity but her own mind. she has to put people in the eternal stockade. how many liches does she see herself in. how many liches started out just like her. how many liches are truly too far gone. and the only liches we ever see other than her and barry are edward and lydia. they’re certainly evil, but mad? they seem pretty sane. they’re not, like, tattered echoes of souls, they’re definitely still people. even as much of a grudge as lup surely has against them, wouldn’t they remind her incredibly strongly of herself? do they deserve to be trapped just like she was? for eternity? isn’t eternity what turned john to existential despair in the first place?

[palettepainter]

[dkettchen]

not me moodboarding tryna figure out what smart casual means to me (guy, gay, extra) after my new supervisor confirmed that's the dress code at the office

[canon-gabriel-quotes]

Can you make a big archive of every suggestive noise gianni has made as gabriel? For preservation reasons. I'm serious. Don't let a single whimper become lost media. Thank you

It’s a bit out of date by now but there’s this post and I try to consistently tag things as #suggestive so you can search that tag

As for preservation I mean I have everything saved on my pc, uploaded here, and uploaded to an online archive as well. Also I keep the linked timestamps on the doc I use to keep track of what has/hasn’t been posted yet.

So everything is safe lol but anyway I just don’t really have the time to sort things like that.

The online archive I have will be public eventually (I mean it already is but I don’t think anyone has found it yet 🤔) but it’s only organized by raw audio and filtered audio. I just want to go through and rename some files before adding the link to the pinned post.

[applejongho]

hi besties hi jonghomies I literally might get a job bc of a fucking fourth of july party. My parents invited a neighbor who works at a place I wanna work at to our fourth of july party and I talked to him about how I applied back in nov and they keep wait listing me and he was fucking appalled bc they just hired some bioengineers that are like..... "totally not as good as you" (his words) and now he has been advocating for me and now a manager is interested in me bc of his advocating. she looked at my resume and was like "we need her." FUCKING HELL

[brawl-bucket]

A day in the life of Dr / Captain Wesker pre- RE.

[assorted-aesthetics]

idk how else to explain it but Employed is such a good character trait for me. whether it's a silly or heavy angle like. character who has done terrible things bc of Job. character who everyone knows from Job. character who work at donut shop and is called 'donut girl'. character w bags under eyes bc Job. either u get me or u don't.

[dr-shortsighted-owl]

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and happy holidays to all you lovely people!

Sending love, hugs, and hoots your way!

[desolationlesbian]

I don't mind hybrid work and I understand its importance to a lot of people. however my main complaint is that if I am going to work from home I need space for a home office. which means higher rent. and they are not paying me more to work from home to offset that. in fact its considered a perk so often hybrid jobs pay less.