Oh no! My precious productivity. How will I ever afford my fifth super yacht?

Oh no! The slaves underpaid workers will be using the paid time off we're forced to allow them to have!

Reminds me of how the World Cup causes a contraction in some countries’ GDP due to a lose of productivity

no time for consuming slop! only spend!

I'm a 46 year old manager in a company that trades €25m per year and I have already told my boss not to expect my presence for at least a week when this comes out.

I mean of course this is just a Rockstar puff piece, but how sick must one's way of thinking must be that people enjoying themselves immediately makes you jump to "but what about labour productivity"?

Poor corporations /s

In my company this was normal. New great game got released? People took a week off or two, or worked more from home or moved to part-time. And it was all fine. I already expected that as I am a gamer myself 😁

That's what most capitalist numbnuts just don't get: a happy employee is a productive employee.

Mine had profit-shares (from janitor upwards), come-and-go-as-you-please, free food and drinks and whatnot. No stupid forced meetings or dumb "bonding-trips" or anything. And guess what? Noone ever exploited the system. Every agree-upon work was always delivererd. Often before estimated deadline. And also I didn't earn 35838291x the average employee-salary. Just a tiny bit more, which is fair considering it was my risk all alone.

Point is...people who do these headlines, or even think like this, have totally lost reality and were never really human but just a worker-bee with more money. I usually pity them. No amount of money will ever fill their inner void.