[otachack]

I believe the pandemic moved most white collar work to work from home. This has allowed softer work requirements in terms of hours and needs to step away from the desk.

Seeing posts of employers imposing spyware to monitor employee keystrokes / time at the desk should serve as warnings and must be pushed back. Historically, pushing back meant union-driven actions. WFH brings a challenge to how union-seeking employees will organize moving forward.

I believe we should absolutely push for 30 hour workweeks or 4 day weeks.

[bluedino]

Between dog walking, grocery store trips, attending to children, most people are working <= 30 hours from home as it is

(If you're in office, replace that with walks around the building, coffee/smoke breaks, long lunches, hanging out in your co-workers cube talking about whatever...)

[akutlay]

For people who can do those (mostly the ones doing creative activities, such as software, marketing, etc.) the 30 or 40-hour week doesn’t matter anyway. This is more important for service jobs or physically intensive jobs, where the hours spent on the job may correlate pretty heavily with the total work done by the worker.

[sdeframond]

Who said you're not working when walking your dog? I certainly think better when I walk than sitting at my desk.

[maxerickson]

This certainly isn't the impression I have. Work from home increased a great deal and still isn't the majority of hours.

BLS has pretty clear statistics for the whole workforce, I didn't find one that broke out salaried positions (which is an okay proxy for white collar, though not great).

At my office it's the rare exception.