Count me in as a big fan of 4-day work weeks. For many of us, much of our time at work is spent watching the clock, taking breaks, chit-chatting, basically not working. Staying at the office just for the sake of putting in 40 hours? Is this really necessary?
Working hours have been shrinking throughout history from the days when every able body worked sunup to sundown seven days a week. I see no reason not to continue this trend.
this is all part of the some people are non-essential cr*p. more AI doing the work, humans not needed:
24 May: UK Mirror: Coronavirus: Calls for three-day week with workers split into ‘A’ and ‘B’ teams
Companies should split workers into two groups, typically working Monday to Wednesday or Thursday to Saturday, as the UK emerges from the coronavirus lockdown, the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce says
By Alan Jones & Chris Kitching, Senior News Reporter
It is based on a similar arrangement in South Korea, which has won praise for its handling of the coronavirus outbreak and crushing of its curve.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/coronavirus-calls-three-day-week-22077116
yes, the big challenge of the next 20-30 years - who will benefit from automation increasing productivity? will it be workers in the form of increased leisure time or investors in increased profits?
worked remote from home last 4 years, work was done by 1 o’clock most days, no gossip no interuptions
“””””””””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.
“I’ve enjoyed 3-day weekends often while putting in four 10-hour days.”
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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.
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.