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Andrew Yang calls for "serious look" at 4-day workweeks, says "3-day weekends are better than 2-day weekends"
Newsweek ^ | 5/25/2020 | Matt Keeley

Posted on 05/26/2020 12:56:57 AM PDT by wanganghi

Former Democratic presidential candidate and entrepreneur Andrew Yang used the Memorial Day weekend to advocate for a four-day workweek on Twitter. "3-Day weekends are better than 2-Day weekends. We should seriously look at 4-day workweeks. Studies show that we would be just as productive. It would create jobs at the margins and improve mental health," Yang tweeted Monday.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: andrewyang; ccp; china; forwardparty; who; workweek; yang
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To: socalgop

Post 8- The third group in this scenario is the collective of tax collectors trying to horn their way into this shifting cash flow.


21 posted on 05/26/2020 3:09:43 AM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: snarkytart
Four-day work weeks are much easier to implement in industries and institutions that operate 24/7. That’s why nurses and police officers can do it. For jobs that are client-oriented and are at least loosely tied to what known as “normal business hours,” this is more difficult to implement because the business has to be staffed for five days while people are only working four.

A former employer of mine once instituted a four-day work week for his professional services company. It lasted for several weeks before he shut it down. The trigger for the shutdown was the Friday when he was the only one in the office and realized there was nobody answering the phone when a client called. It’s kind of baffling that he didn’t think of that beforehand.

22 posted on 05/26/2020 3:47:21 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And somewhere in the darkness ... the gambler, he broke even.")
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To: wanganghi

Why should we be listening to this guy? How many billions has he made?


23 posted on 05/26/2020 3:51:49 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Mocking Liberals is not only a right, but the duty of all Americans.)
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To: wanganghi

Depends on the situation. People aren’t necessarily that productive as you add hours to the work day. If it works for you, great.

The point is it should not be mandated by outsiders. People don’t hire you because you need a job, they hire you because they need something done.


24 posted on 05/26/2020 4:11:00 AM PDT by marron
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To: Drew68

worked remote from home last 4 years, work was done by 1 o’clock most days, no gossip no interuptions


25 posted on 05/26/2020 4:12:01 AM PDT by Jolla
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To: wanganghi

Small business already works way more than 40 hours a week. who is this 3 day work week for? Government? Government already has way more holidays and shorter hours than regular industry. We don’t need government workers to be any more entitled or worthless than they already are.


26 posted on 05/26/2020 4:17:28 AM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: wanganghi

As for reduced hours as a way of “creating more jobs”, 32 hour work weeks for example, if this works for you, fine. Lots of businesses have gone to 20 hour weeks to avoid paying benefits, and there is an advantage in work forces with a lot of turnover... though short hours might actually cause the high turnover.

But in most businesses people are not interchangeable cogs. You work a full week, you want people around you who are going to work a full week with you. So again this should not be mandated by outsiders.


27 posted on 05/26/2020 4:22:45 AM PDT by marron
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To: House Atreides

A four day work week would be okay so long as each work day is 10 hours.Then I would get 70 hours a week. With this 5 day week I only get 56.


28 posted on 05/26/2020 4:30:00 AM PDT by arthurus ( covfefe cop)
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To: Drew68

“””””””””For many of us, much of our time at work is spent watching the clock, taking breaks, chit-chatting, basically not working””””””””””””””””””

It sounds like you are in a business that could use a good house cleaning.


29 posted on 05/26/2020 4:48:14 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: Drew68

“I’ve enjoyed 3-day weekends often while putting in four 10-hour days.”

Let’s see - in the winter, esp during DST, a 10 hour day would give some people about 2 minutes (or whatever) of daytime to do non work stuff or to just enjoy.

Dunno if people who work monotonous repetitive jobs, e.g. with widgets on an assembly line would approve (maybe they would, I dunno).

Actually I like the idea, but in just about everything in life there’s gonna be a downside for some people.


30 posted on 05/26/2020 5:08:56 AM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: shelterguy

“It sounds like you are in a business that could use a good house cleaning.”

I was thinking of asking if they’re hiring....


31 posted on 05/26/2020 5:09:54 AM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: wanganghi

Who?


32 posted on 05/26/2020 5:23:04 AM PDT by sickoflibs (Joe Biden:"If you don't support me then you ain't black"(explains the polls on blacks and Trump))
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To: wanganghi

I used to work four 10 hour days, including the weekend. No problem. (not what yingyang meant, though)


33 posted on 05/26/2020 5:25:45 AM PDT by dynachrome (The panic will end, the tyranny will not)
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To: Drew68

I don’t think he’s talking about 4 10-hour days. More likely he wants the serfs to take a 20% salary haircut to work 32-hour weeks.

Another step toward subsistence funding for the marginally productive.


34 posted on 05/26/2020 5:26:11 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: wanganghi

A 10-hour workday would be ok by everyone I know. It’s the 12-hour shift that I never liked.


35 posted on 05/26/2020 5:37:54 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist (Those who give up some freedom for some liberty deserve neither.)
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To: wanganghi

4 day work weeks were predicted way back in 1960. The nearest I ever got to it was a 10 hour work day, four days a week. OT on Friday and Saturday.


36 posted on 05/26/2020 7:40:10 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Thrown off Facebook. Was it something I said ?)
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To: wanganghi

It won’t work at some jobs. Try working a 4-day work week at a commissioned job & see what it gets you. Broke, most likely.


37 posted on 05/26/2020 9:08:08 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: wanganghi

Yang’s proposals come from thinking that, because you know one business, you know all businesses and are qualified to decide what everyone else should do.


38 posted on 05/26/2020 10:51:11 AM PDT by marron
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To: Spktyr

——f you have one worker working four days a week, even ten hours, then you need to have someone else to cover the other day of the business week the first employee is off, assuming your company runs M-F.-——

I worked for a company where you worked 4 - 10 hour days. So on the first week you would have Friday off, then Thurs, Wed, Tue, then Mon so that you would never have a 4 day weekend. It was great, there was always one of us off.


39 posted on 05/26/2020 10:56:52 AM PDT by VastRWCon (Fake News)
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To: VastRWCon

In my experience the rotating day off never worked all that well at the several facilities I saw it tried at, if they were open 5 days a week. The way that seemed to work the best was for each person to have one fixed additional day off in addition to the weekend. For the 7 day a week outfits, it didn’t seem to matter whether the third day was fixed or floating.

For those that don’t know, 4x10s have been a common feature of tech-oriented businesses for at least a couple decades now.


40 posted on 05/26/2020 12:14:37 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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