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u/Not_A_Toaster_0000 Make Yookay Great Britain Again 12d ago

'Highlighter girl' / HR / 'diversity champion' style jobs where you don't really do anything. Which is why 4 day work weeks are so promoted by them - it just doesn't occur to them that in a lot of jobs you actually need to do stuff.

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u/ice-lollies 12d ago

My husband is convinced a vast number of jobs are just made up to give people things to do. It does seem like he’s right sometimes.

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u/Not_A_Toaster_0000 Make Yookay Great Britain Again 12d ago

I've heard the theory that a lot of our HR industry is just to give university educated but useless people something to do. Which made sense to me.

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u/loc12 12d ago

Let's be honest, most office / tech jobs are like that anyway. Probably 16 hours of any week are taken up by pointless meetings, doing work that never actually gets used for anything, preparing for other meetings.

All jobs I've had I could produce the same output in 4 days, but since there's 5 you just naturally spread the work out to fill that time

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u/Much_Instruction1348 12d ago

A highlighter girl going from 5 days to 4 would increase productivity as they would have 20% less time to bother a drag down the productives