UK: Company reveals plans to offer 'period leave' to women EVERY month - to create a 'happier' work environment.

SchalaZeal01 · 2016-03-01T19:51:01+00:00

'I was talking to someone the other day and they said if it were men who had periods then this policy would have been brought in sooner.

Yes, because the world is known to bend over backwards for the comfort of the common non-1% men, right?

Ultramegasaurus · 2016-03-01T18:48:25+00:00

Literal pussy pass

GreasedLightning · 2016-03-01T19:23:33+00:00

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Tmomp · 2016-03-02T00:04:51+00:00

Are they saying that men are more predictable and dependable than women? Is there any other way to interpret this?

Are they installing fainting couches?

intensely_human · 2016-03-01T19:40:15+00:00

Point to self: Do not employ women of menstruating age.

Ovendice · 2016-03-01T21:12:40+00:00

That's awesome! So that means women will be out of the office even MORE than they already are, meaning all the promotions will go to men!

In fact, why don't you females just stay at home ... full time? You're not doing anything anyway, just get in the way and just make false accusations trying to file phony lawsuits. You won't be missed.

2016-03-01T18:41:42+00:00

It is a charity "social community group Coexist".

socialinjusticewar · 2016-03-02T00:21:24+00:00

After paying them more than the men to make up for the "pay gap".

TheDude41 · 2016-03-02T04:18:54+00:00

SupremeAuthority · 2016-03-01T21:29:38+00:00

24 of 31 staff are female. You're going to let 24 staff off at the same time when their cycles sync up? Good luck.

SaiHottari · 2016-03-01T19:45:53+00:00

Whats really funny about this is women who work together tend to sync up their cycles, if there are 4 women in an office they are all menstruating during the same week.

So if this catches on it will effectively create 'patriarchy weeks' for for each participating business, all the men will look forward to that week for its relaxed atmosphere and satisfying productivity.

yummyluckycharms · 2016-03-01T21:05:58+00:00

This is a great signaling effect to know which companies males shouldnt work for. After all, why would you work at a company like that, knowing that you also wouldn't get promoted due to their misandry.

GreasedLightning · 2016-03-02T01:47:16+00:00

Paid leave? Damn, that's a little overboard. Maybe if it's something they need to take time off for, you could take a quarter out of their entire pay. To make up for the losses.

2016-03-02T08:44:25+00:00

Aren't they arguing the point women aren't suited for the work environment? Their bodies are so feeble and hormonal it's a wonder any work gets done during that time of the month. Just stay home cause you ain't contributing to society like a sanitation worker. Your media computer jobs are pointless.

v573v · 2016-03-02T12:25:52+00:00

Dear Female Employee,

Great news! The company views you as a liability once a month so stay the fuck home with your bitchy, irritable, overly emotional problem, also, tummy pains!

We don't want you here.

k thxbai

Lethn · 2016-03-01T18:46:37+00:00

Thank fuck this isn't a government funded thing.

cmumford · 2016-03-01T22:17:14+00:00

As long as this is a company decision then I'm more-or-less OK with this. Let's say that worse case each woman takes one day per month. So that's 77% of her employees working 5% less per month - basically a loss of 3.9% of her employee work hours - but not a drop in expenses.

Assuming there are no limits (like maximum hours) then each employee would work about one day (six hours) per month extra. The women would get (again on average) eight of these hours back, for a net -2 hr./mo. reduction, and the men, not taking that time off, would have an increase to their hours of ~6 hr./mo. I'm assuming that because the article brought up "fairness" that the men would also need to pick up this slack.

I don't know if the men are salaried or hourly, but if they are now working approximately eight hours per month more than their female counterparts, possibly with no increase in salary or benefits, then that doesn't sound very fair, but the market forces should take care of that. The men will likely move to a different company, and the company will then have a sustained extra 5% overhead - which is actually a whole lot.

If this becomes law then that eliminates the market pressures, which would really suck for us men.

TheDude41 · 2016-03-02T04:19:49+00:00

Title	UK: Company reveals plans to offer 'period leave' to women EVERY month - to create a 'happier' work environment.
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Date	March 1, 2016 6:40 PM UTC (10 years ago)
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