/biz/ - Business & Finance

Hey economics experts on /biz/. Why are a large portion of white collar workers in the western world working fuck all hours during their time at work? A lot of IT workers, administrators, accountants, logistics managers, etc are doing 3 hours of actual work a day.

At first I thought it was a humblebrag, a way of people bragging about how easy their jobs are, but I just seen it too much, and then I started seeing it in person and I couldn't believe the amount of time people in those circles just don't do any work.

I don't think there's anything inherent in the work that justifies it either, because it's not universal and not all white collar work is hard. In the third world, those jobs are often the most grinding and brutal, just look at the work schedule IT workers in China have to keep to, the 996 system, 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. And the ones brought into the west into the same areas on work visas don't seem to get the same luxury, they're treated like workhorses while the locals sign out early and often dick around.

>In the long run we are all dead... but some of you will be dead much sooner than others if you ever even fucking dare to threaten the USD with a rival currency.

-John Maynard Keynes