Dh8,500 job to do nothing for the rest of your life in Sweden

 

Dh8,500 job to do nothing for the rest of your life in Sweden

The government-funded conceptual art project is titled "Eternal Employment".

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Published: Mon 11 Mar 2019, 2:45 PM

Last updated: Mon 11 Mar 2019, 5:04 PM

How about a permanent job that allows ample time to do anything under the sun and the only requisite is to clock in and out every day? An upcoming train station in Korsvägen, Gothenburg, Sweden, is looking to hire someone who is willing to arrive at work each morning and punch in and punch out the time clock.
The government-funded conceptual art project is titled "Eternal Employment" and will start in 2026, applications for which will be welcomed only in 2025. The project is both a social experiment and a serious political statement, offering a permanent position, with a salary of about $2,320 a month plus annual wage increases, vacation time off and a pension for retirement. 
The job will require the train station employee to come in every morning to Korsvägen and punch the time clock, this in turn will illuminate fluorescent lights over the platform. While, at the end of the day, the worker will have to clock out after which the lights will go off, according to a draft of the job available online, NDTV quoted Atlas Obscura reports on Monday.
"The position holds no duties or responsibilities, other than that it should be carried out at Korsvägen. Whatever the employee chooses to do constitutes the work," the job draft read. Moreover, the worker will not be obligated to stay at the station all day long and can quit or retire and be replaced by another worker anytime they want; otherwise, their employment is guaranteed for life.
The train station design will be done by Simon Goldin and Jakob Senneby, a pair of Swedish artists, who won around $750,000 prize for the competition to design the new station. The duo decided to use the prize money to pay one worker's salary and give them absolutely nothing to do all day.

"In the face of mass automation and artificial intelligence, the impending threat/promise is that we will all become productively superfluous. We will all be 'employed at Korsvägen,' as it were," Goldin and Senneby's proposal said.



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