Imagine you own a couch you can sit on for forty hours a week, and it’s decoratively on display in your living room, but generally completely unused.
You’re not going to want to pay the same amount to be able to sit on it less, even if you never do.
The analogy here is that management basically sees you as furniture they literally own. They don’t want to give up ownership of that time for any reason.
Interesting. I think you’re right. Management sees employment as an exchange of money for time. If productivity drops, the common response is more pressure to perform and reminding you of your place as the employee, and that your time is bought and paid for.
Imagine you own a couch you can sit on for forty hours a week, and it’s decoratively on display in your living room, but generally completely unused.
You’re not going to want to pay the same amount to be able to sit on it less, even if you never do.
The analogy here is that management basically sees you as furniture they literally own. They don’t want to give up ownership of that time for any reason.
Interesting. I think you’re right. Management sees employment as an exchange of money for time. If productivity drops, the common response is more pressure to perform and reminding you of your place as the employee, and that your time is bought and paid for.