Doesn't stop certain big tech companies from building giant campuses with cafeterias and housing so that employees can literally live, eat, and sleep at work.

If not for labor unions we would still be working 12+ hour days. The 8 hour workday and the weekend is all thanks to the courageous efforts of labor advocates.

And this is why you support your labour unions.

Dudes wearing Oakley's and Fox Racing hats would be saying they're better than you because you don't work 22 hour days.

Also the transition from drunk to sober would suck more.

our cultures

*Capitalism

Haha, as if there was not a push for people to work more around the clock than ever.

More job areas would have cafeterias, and I think we would see a lot of 24 hour employees

Omg I actually had this same thought the other day and wrote it down.

I just thought about how cool it would be to not need to sleep. You could have a whole 8-or-so hours to do whatever you want. But then I realized that if we didn't need to sleep we would likely be required to work longer hours or be otherwise productive during those 8-or-so hours. It's crazy how arbitrary productivity really is.

Congratulations on having the world's most depressing shower thought.

Follow-up Shower thought: Sentient Robots will not require rest or sleep, and thus, will automatically suffer through this.

https://www.powernapcomic.com/ deals with a fictional world where a drug makes this corporate dystopia possible but a small percentage of people cannot take the drug making them effectively disabled from a normal worker perspective.

Investment bankers would like a word (but they probably don't have time).

And they'd be mad that the damn dirt Labor union won't let them have 24 hour shifts.

And there will be beaten and abused workers agreeing with them because they've been convinced that working 24 hr shifts would be better for them.

I did 24hr shifts a minimum of two days per week. Most times I did three days per week with 24hrs of OT. I did that from 2000-2017.

Now I do simple 4 x 10hr days.

Ever heard of 9-9-6?

I could feel the smile drop off my face while I read this

This doesn't really make sense. Try it the other way: "It's a shame we don't sleep 23 hours a day, then we'd only have to work for a few minutes."

if aliens invaded and forced us to work for them they'd probably have better work culture than us

South Korea is closely looking at your thread probably trying to figure out if there’s another way 🥲

Healthcare workers and mental health workers already are doing 12 and 16 hour days.

On the other hand, it would feel pretty normal to us.

Perhaps even our time perception would be probably a bit different. As someone coming from world where bodies require about 8-9 hours of sleep, the perception of time is naturally affected (if not dictated) by having series of waking periods of about the same length every day.

If there was no such thing as sleep (which might be a bit different than just "not requiring sleep" as you suggest) then we'd just be conscious in one continuous chunk from birth to death. Given what problems our brains solve by sleep (learning, sorting memories / feelings), if the brains were to do these things continuously, the consciousness itself would probably be at least quite a bit different experience.

Uhm.. But University work require you work for almost 20 hours per day tho?