A digital deception tool manipulates your schedule, causing tardiness at the workplace, and this article elucidates the reasons behind it.
Artistic protest against the contentious pension reform is gaining momentum in an unconventional manner. The satirical movement, Zélé's "The Reform of Delays," has been making waves since its launch a few weeks ago, as reported by franceinfo on May 15th.
In essence, this campaign encourages French workers to arrive late to work as a symbolic protest against prolonged working hours due to the pension reform. The collective has utilized artificial intelligence to develop a simulator, dubbed the "Ministry of Latecomers."
The online tool allows users to calculate how many minutes late they need to be to balance out the delay in retirement age. Data required includes their age, start date of employment, weekly work hours, annual work days, and any periods of inactivity or unemployment. Charles-Antoine de Sousa, a 36-year-old art director, explains the process: "We take the imposed working hour, multiply it by 60, and divide it by the number of days left until retirement."
This scheme might not force the government to reconsider the retirement age increase to 64, but the creators aim to reignite the debate on what they view as an unfair reform. De Sousa notes, "it's born out of a kind of weariness. We've been very little heard, we've been in the streets a lot, and it hasn't done much good. The idea is therefore to come today with an alternative solution to take back the time that was 'stolen' from us."
It's important to clarify that this initiative does not aim for widespread tardiness across France, but rather to spark awareness about time and make it more tangible. De Sousa emphasizes, "this notion of time is difficult to grasp, but when it's broken down into small pieces, it's a way to visualize more clearly the impact it has on our daily lives."
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Topics Discussed: Satirical protest, pension reform, working hours, delayed work, time management, retirement, simulator
- The satirical "The Reform of Delays" campaign, aimed atadding momentum to the opposition of contentious pension reform, proposes a symbolic protest encouraging French workers to calculate and adjust their late arrivals to work, using the Ministry of Latecomers' AI simulator.
- The now-ongoing campaign recognizes the government's planned increase of retirement age to 64, and, instead of advocating widespread tardiness, intends to keep the spotlight on the debate surrounding the fairness of the reform.
- The initiative, rooted in a sentiment of weariness over minimal progress in listening to the people's concerns, aspires to make the elusive issue of time more concrete, demonstrating its tangible impact on one's daily lifestyle and retirement plans.
