They point to our labour being "35 per cent less productive" than the labour in the US Gulf Coast for projects near cities (it's up to 60 per cent less productive in remote locations) - and I have to admit I'd like to know what the yardstick they're using is
They mean "the damn workers won't pull 50 hours a week whenever we tell them to, and also they insist on taking their breaks and lunch hours and damned if they don't waste time setting up safety equipment and also stretching between loading heavy things, and at the end of the day we have tired-but-healthy workers and less stuff in the carts. And in rural locations they waste all that time driving at roadsafe speeds and they don't run between tasks; they walk from one part of the building/grounds/mine and another."
USan business "efficiency" means "people act like workbots as much as possible, and if they don't, their pay gets docked or they get fired and replaced with someone who will." In countries where employment is supposed to support the worker, not the shareholders, workers are "less efficient," which means that they're not burned-out husks after a couple of years.
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They mean "the damn workers won't pull 50 hours a week whenever we tell them to, and also they insist on taking their breaks and lunch hours and damned if they don't waste time setting up safety equipment and also stretching between loading heavy things, and at the end of the day we have tired-but-healthy workers and less stuff in the carts. And in rural locations they waste all that time driving at roadsafe speeds and they don't run between tasks; they walk from one part of the building/grounds/mine and another."
USan business "efficiency" means "people act like workbots as much as possible, and if they don't, their pay gets docked or they get fired and replaced with someone who will." In countries where employment is supposed to support the worker, not the shareholders, workers are "less efficient," which means that they're not burned-out husks after a couple of years.