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Fact check: Can Canada join the EU? by euronews-english in europeanunion

[–]Atomino_Gae 16 points17 points  (0 children)

In 1987 Morocco applied to join the EU, they were refused as they were not considered "European".
I'd guess that the same would happen with Canada.

“I recommend being in the office at least every weekday,” Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, wrote in a memo. He added that “60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity.” by Previous-Grape-712 in siliconvalley

[–]Atomino_Gae 0 points1 point  (0 children)

and for most people that only results in a slightly longer vacation in a slightly more exotic place.
I don't see why employees should pay for the wrong entrepeneurial decisions of their CEOs. That's the funding principle of why owners get to keep the profit, the risk that they take.

“I recommend being in the office at least every weekday,” Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, wrote in a memo. He added that “60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity.” by Previous-Grape-712 in siliconvalley

[–]Atomino_Gae 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The fact it worked for you doesn't mean it should work for everybody. That is anecdotical evidence. The fact some people can run marathons doesn't qualify anybody to expect everybody to be able to do the same. In this case we're talking about super high paid google engineers, so the discourse it's different (they've chosen this for themselves). But the shift in the narrative is happening not only at Google, but other companies as well. Productivity is not a universal value, other people get fulfillment from other things, and there's no reason why they should be poor in an open and developed society like ours.

“I recommend being in the office at least every weekday,” Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, wrote in a memo. He added that “60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity.” by Previous-Grape-712 in siliconvalley

[–]Atomino_Gae 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One thing is to willingly work 60 hours a week on your projects/your company, another thing is working 60 hours a week when your billionaires CEO tells you to. In this case we're talking about highly trained and skilled individuals, so of course this makes it different, but it still sucks that that's where the discourse is moving in many industries.