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This Week in Review☕: Marriage Rates are up | People are working less than ever | Luxury Postnatal Retreats are the new thing | Sell TikTok or Be Banned | Mercedes tests robots in its factories | Coke
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Quick Bites:
Work 💻: Are people really overworked? Being overworked is a global problem but is it really THAT big an issue as people have made it out to be?
According to Bloomberg, overwork is nothing but a "dangerous illusion". Infact, people are working less than they ever have.
HR showing us all our Facebook posts about how much we hate our job 👇🏻🤯
Umm we're overworked, underpaid and under-appreciated. It's just a perk of being middle-class and educated.
PS. When your boss tells you that you actually have to come into the office 5 days a week👇🏻
Background, reported by Bloomberg:
💡The European Union introduced a maximum of a 48-hour work week in 2003; majority of the countries follow this rule.
💡Some countries in the EU are doing 40 hours.
💡France, Italy, Spain, Belgium and Ireland have all introduced “right to disconnect” laws specifying hours when staff are not required to respond to emails.
💡The global movement to shift to a 4-day working week is gaining popularity.
In China, many young people are so worried about their country’s 996 work culture (9 to 9 six days a week) that they have started a "lying flat" movement, or “tang ping” in Chinese, Bloomberg.
“We employees are too tired. We have to lie down.”
However, it's important to note that being overworked depends on context. Sometimes, it's just inefficient time management.
This mental hysteria has led to a number of people quitting the workforce. Throw in all these career gurus on social media, and people are even more determined to take it easy and relax.
The last thing this uncertain economy needs is more people to stay #funemployed.
Our Thoughts💡: Us at work dreaming of happy hour and schemes to scam our way into early retirement👇🏻
Travel ✈️ : Luxury postnatal retreats are the new thing.
Imagine you've just had a baby. Instead of eating frozen broccoli and having your annoying in-laws hover around you, you're in some exotic resort getting a hot stone massage, dining on gourmet Japanese and going for postnatal yoga 🧖♀️
Oh, and most importantly: you're getting a solid eight hours of sleep every night! 🙏🏻
This is the new reality for families with money: Checking into luxury postpartum retreats to spend the delicate first days with a baby.
Hotels and investors are seeing this as a business opportunity, with wealthy guests expected to pay over $1,500 per night, Bloomberg reports.
We're all for this luxury treatment, postnatal or not:
💡Waiters in 5-star resorts: Here is your Red Snapper with Salsa Verde Risotto and Italian White Alba Truffle sir. Would you like a complimentary champagne to go with it?
💡Waiters in a 2-star: Anyone want a damn cashew?! 🤬🤬
While already commonplace in Asia in countries from Taiwan to South Korea, recovery centers have gained popularity in the US off late.
Businesses are capitalizing on the lack of postpartum support for Americans; The US is the only high-income country in the world that fails to guarantee parental leave for new mothers, Bloomberg reports.
Our Thoughts: Motherhood.. Because that one night's sleep feels better than sanity ever did.
PS. All these new moms on Instagram making their own Strawberry Body Butter and Mickey Mouse-shaped pancakes 🥞 .. and we're all like "We managed to bathe and keep the kids alive.. F U all🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻"
Big Tech📱: The US House of Representatives passes bill to ban TikTok, a major blow to one of the world's most popular social media apps.
With roughly 170 million Americans on the app, the government is concerned that user data could go directly into the hands of the Chinese Communist Party.
DOJ: We can't let TikTok spy on US citizens. That's our job.
Current POV💡: Watching 15-year olds get paid for boogieing to Beyoncé while we we get ready for our fifth 10-hour shift this week👇🏻
We tired of making money the hard way 😫
BAN TIKTOK 🤬
Key Highlights, reported by CBS News:
💡TikTok's Chinese parent company, ByteDance has been given a choice: Sell TikTok within six months, or lose access to US app stores
💡President Joe Biden has said he would sign it if it passes Congress
💡The bill is now headed to the Senate
💡TikTok has denied the accusations: “ByteDance is not owned or controlled by the Chinese government. It is a private company”
TikTok’s addictive nature has also raised concerns over its negative impact on young kids. But critics of the ban say that the same can be said about apps like Instagram.
“They happen to control a company that owns one of the world’s best artificial intelligence algorithms. It’s the one that’s used in this country by TikTok, and it uses the data of Americans to basically read your mind and predict what videos you want to see”
-Marco Rubio, Republican Vice Chairman of the Senate
Our Thoughts💡: Bans TikTok.. Does nothing about guns, education, boarder, affordable housing, healthcare?!?!?!
PRIORITIES 🤔🤔
PS. TikTok users going back to their old lives👇🏻
Culture 💍 : Marriage rates are up and divorce rates are down, CNN reports.
After Covid-19 lockdowns, 2022 was a year of marriages.
In 2020, the marriage rate was down to 5.1 per 1,000 people, according to new data. But by 2022, the number of marriages had reached 6.2 per capita and over 2 million in a year.
Key Highlights, according to CNN:
💡Being in lockdown together gave many couples the opportunity to figure out their challenges
💡Going to therapy has also become more normal
💡Gender roles in marriages have also become more flexible
💡Divorce rates are also going down as people are changing how they pick their partners
“I’ve noticed a gradual shift from the ‘romantic marriage’ to the ‘companionate marriage,’ meaning that people are increasingly choosing spouses at the outset who are more like best friends than passion-partners”
-Marissa Nelson, a licensed marriage and family therapist said to CNN
Artificial Intelligence 🤖: Mercedes-Benz wants robots to handle “repetitive” and physically demanding tasks in its factories.
The German carmaker will test 5-foot-8-inch robots as it struggles to find "reliable workers", Quartz reports.
When robots take over all our jobs👇🏻
Key Highlights, according to Quartz:
💡Mercedes will test humanoid Apollo robots made by Texas-based company called 'Apptronik'
💡These robots roughly weigh 70 kgs and can lift upto 25 kgs
💡The robots will help save car manufacturers money because investing in automation is less expensive than changing production lines or plant layouts
💡Other automakers like BMW have enlisted Silicon Valley-based Figure's humanoid robots while Tesla has been working on its own robot, 'The Optimus' since August 2021
Labor unions have opposed humanoid robots, claiming it will take over their jobs. AI-powered robotics could replace human workers, such as masseuses and baristas.
“It is very scary because tomorrow is never promised,”
-Roman Alejo, a barista at the Sahara hotel-casino in Las Vegas, told the Associated Press.
“A lot of AI is coming into this world. It is very scary and very eye-opening to see how humans can think of replacing other humans.”
Quicker Bites:
India can’t match China’s past 8-10% growth, Morgan Stanley says.
Donald Trump rules out Vivek Ramaswamy as running mate.
Japan ends negative interest rates in historic shift.
Only 10 countries had healthy air quality in 2023.
The UAE is using cloud seeding tech to make it rain.
Bitcoin slips below $68,000, adding to weekend losses.
Volcano in Iceland erupts, forcing an evacuation of the Blue Lagoon.
Alphabet is up 4.5% after report that Apple is in talks to license Gemini for its iPhones.
Selena Gomez weighs sale of cosmetics brand ‘Rare Beauty’ valued at $2 billion.