Billionaire Carlos Slim Calls For Three-Day Working Week To Improve Quality Of Life

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http://www.businessinsider.com/billionaire-carlos-slim-calls-for-three-day-working-week-to-improve-quality-of-life-2014-7



Mexican billionaire tycoon, Carlos Slim, has called for the introduction of a three-day working week, offset by longer hours and a later retirement, as a way to improve people’s quality of life and create a more productive labour force.

Slim made the comments when speaking to a business conference in Paraguay, suggesting that the workforce could be spread over a full week, with employees working up to 10 or 11 hours a day.

“With three work days a week, we would have more time to relax; for quality of life,” the Financial Times reports Slim saying.

The business conference, Growing Together – States and Enterprises, was held in Asuncion and was attended by business and political leaders from across Latin America.



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[Javaman]

1. Does he also include a pay raise with that? nt

[get the red out]

2. Yea

My thought too.

[LuvNewcastle]

3. A lot of people I know can barely afford to live on

60 hours a week. To work 30 hours, they would have to at least make double their present wage, and I'm sure people like Slim wouldn't want to increase wages that much, if at all. To improve "quality of life," people would need a lot of extra cash lying around to take trips and do fun things on those 4 days off. Slim talks like most people have all sorts of extra money they've been hoarding for the opportunity to spend it. People like Slim are fucking clueless about the lives or ordinary people.

[jwirr]

4. I hate weekends - no thank you.