My personal opinion here though is you address the wrong concerns in this article lol. I'd have thought you'd be more concerned about automation inevitably taking these people jobs. It's not that the employer is being pushed to robots and alternatives based on worker performance or lack thereof.

The employer we well know is going to take whatever option anyway that produces the most money for him. Now in some cases i think this can become unethical as capitalism does from time to time. However it is what it is. I would say that an employee working 20% less a week could also go another way. You could have a healthier happier well rested employee that actually keeps up with production demand or surprasses it.

I know it's more in line less work equals less production. However that isn't exactly true. It's not less work equals less production. It's less qualified and motivated employees equal less production. So when an employee feels his company doesn't even care about them. Do you feel you're going to get the most production out of those employees?

My thoughts are you're going to get the most production out of the happiest employee who wants to be on the job in the first place. In the military they stopped the draft because you'd get unmotivated and unqualified soldiers. I don't think this goes far from the workforce when people being enslaved to work despite not wanting to be.

My solutions are in a double method approach or it kills two birds with one stone. Ubi helps to deal with the inevitable automation of most jobs and losing of jobs. It also i believe would make employees happier and they would be more productive. Now of course you can have the opposite effect. However i'm just suggesting it doesn't have to mean less production necessarily. I wanted to do something about problems like this so i went and created a ubi project in cryptocurrency. Most everyone else tried to build businesses on the blockchain that probably don't even belong on the chain. The others built pyramids and ponzi schemes and that's all they managed to accomplish.