>where leisure is doled out to peasants for productivity reasons.

This also pisses me off. We can only have things to be "more productive." If we always had this attitude then we'd never have the weekend.

I imagine its the most politically acceptable way to sell this argument. "Sure, we're all going home at 3, but hey, the businesses still make money so why not?"

I suspect management's ancient ideas of "meetings" and "face time" are killing this little revolution. A lot of middle managers are little more than meetings bullshitters and cutting their main value is going to scare them.