Amplifying Indigenous Voices in Business by Priscilla Omulo

Author:Priscilla Omulo [Priscilla Omulo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Workplace Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship
Publisher: Self-Counsel Press
Published: 2022-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

3.5 An eight-hour work day and a six-day work week

With COVID-19 in 2020–2021, people had a big shift in life and how they worked if they did. The eight-hour work day and six-day work week was viewed differently. Work-life balance was called into question. There is no way to say where society will be after this pandemic. What I can say is that this eight-hour work day and six-day work week was something that colonial nuclear families strived for in generations past. Patriarchy served this ideal situation of “woman taking care of home and children, man sole provider of family income” with decades of changes that you business folks will have a better way of describing than I could try to do, but you know that this does not work. Many homes need two or more incomes and not all families are nuclear.

How does this all tie in together with unions, Indigenization, and the work week? Indigenous families have different cultural practices, different family structures, and roles; thus, this ideology does not fit with what is needed. Cultural ceremony and family responsibility pulls many away from work seasonally or unexpectedly. If unions and employers worked to recognize this and give space for employees to maintain their employment status, there would most likely be more retention and better work performance.

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