Dear community,

we are happy to come to you again with the most important updates, those, which belong in the ears of all members and interested people after the flurry of good work.

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🆕 Again some new things with the shifts (sorry...)

⏲️ Orgateam practices 30h week

🆕 Again something new with the shifts (sorry...)

We made a mistake. The current shift system where you have to sign up for a future shift is stupid.

What wasn't great was that it caused ambiguous situations at the checkout. Who decides if the member gets a discount now after all, if she just did a shift yesterday and just forgot to sign up for a new shift?

Even worse, people were forced to switch to the payment model. Including single parents who have a hard time looking a month ahead and students who have to moonlight. This is stupid, because we...

1️⃣ be happy if you do shifts.

2️⃣ want you to feel comfortable at robinhood.

That's why, we implement your feedback and turn the system upside down.

The new system is quite simple:

After each shift you will get your memberdiscount for 30 days. If you complete the next shift before the 30 days are up, you'll get the remaining days and another 30 days credited. In the Shift App you will see exactly until when you can shop at a discount.

You will also still be able to pause. Pause means that you will not get a discount temporarily, but at the same time the timer will stop running. That means you can do your shifts, pause in the Shift App and then go to the Baltic Sea for 4 weeks without worrying. When you come back you will get the discount again. Note, however, that our checkout system is a bit vintage and we need at least one extra day until you get a discount at the checkout again.

We will be implementing this change starting October 3.

🧪 Robinhood is an experiment - and we're totally grateful to you for helping to support and shape it. ❤️

⏲️ Orgateam practices 30h week

There are currently 6 people working full time with the robinhood store project, not only finding meaning but also making a living through it. But what is full time?

We will not leave this question to the state alone, as we are talking about a fundamental freedom that is important for the economic system we are proposing.

The 40-hour week, fought for in the 1930s and not touched since, appears to many to be out of date. In our eyes, productivity increases when people work more motivated and concentrated in 30 instead of 40 hours, because people are happier when they still have time for a life besides work.

For some time now, we have therefore had the idea of setting our own standards in this matter. And also in context with our wage ceiling, which is based on a fair piece of the pie of the global income and is sufficient, but in some industries comparatively meager, it makes sense to compensate for this with a lot of free time and freedom, a lot of vacation and little stress. Instead of appropriating a privilege with one's wage that is taken and then lacking elsewhere, with a healthy amount of free time we have something that we do not take from anyone when we give it to ourselves.

And that's why, after a period of overwork in the launch phase, we've been testing the 30h week for over two months now. The preliminary result: Overtime is still happening, but it is within reasonable limits. Productivity seems to have dropped only slightly, but stress levels have dropped significantly, and since we still want to work for this thing in 10 years, that seems pretty sensible. In summary: For now, it seems to be working out time-wise, economically, and happily.

🥗 KÜFA in front of the store on 5.10. from 6 pm

Coming Wednesday night, we're excited to finally get together again and grab a bite to eat, catch up in the real world and with enough time. Bring your friends and warm sweaters, and let's get going! Altenbraker Straße 15, food against donation about 7 pm ready, prepared will probably be a vegan version of Kung Pao Cauliflower!

The newsletter was written this time by: *Mattis and Valentin

Valentin was so helpful in writing the explanation of the new shift system. My work is often the leftover but important. Newsletters, mails, chats, constitutions: Writing is something I mostly enjoy doing.