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‘Who dreams this crap up?’: Kevin O'Leary slams new rule that allows employees to ignore their bosses after hours (finance.yahoo.com)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (9 children)

There are a lot of jobs that require out of hours support, specifically those that aren’t tied to business hours. In tech at least, many of the sites and services you use are built off the backs of software engineers that are paged at 5am because latency is a little higher than normal.

There is a very easy solution to this dilemma: pay someone to stand ready at off-hours.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 week ago (7 children)

While true, there are some complications to this:

  • Unsociable hours usually require more pay
  • If you're already working 40 hours a week, focusing on stuff out of hours is going to be hard. I know this all too well!

IMO, this is EXACTLY where outsourcing should be used. Either move someone from the US (or your home country) to where you need support, ensure you have a good triage system for issues that might come up, etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I worked retail for 10+ years, and never once did I receive more pay for working on weekends, nor have I ever met anyone who has.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Might be another Americanism. It's been close to two decades since I worked retail, but I got paid more on weekends than weekdays.

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