Posted on 12/01/2022 8:24:22 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
(NEXSTAR) – One less day of work, not a dollar less in pay – for an employee, what’s not to love? But even employers like the idea, a recent trial of about 30 companies shows.
Thirty-three companies employing about 1,000 people in the U.S., Ireland and Australia decided to test out a four-day, 32-hour workweek as part of a six-month pilot designed by the nonprofit 4 Day Week Global and professors at Boston College. The trial instructed “employees to work 80% of their regularly scheduled hours in return for 100% of their pay and a pledge to deliver 100% of their standard output.”
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One guy told me, Id rather roll out of bed in my underwear and start working at home then drive here.
A four day work week is what most people do in five days.
They told us to stay home. They want to build some offices for management so we will lose cubicle space. Then they mentioned “Hybrid hoteling”.
I mentioned “retiring”.
I’m lucky to be 100% remote, but I do miss a lot of the aspects of working on site. I see the pros and cons, but the option to return to an office is actually perk.
This country is screwed. Get money for sitting at home, doing the laundry. No industrial output. Everyone is entitled to do nothing.
I am not joining that world.
Just become a teacher, that’s basically a 3 day work week when you count Summer’s off and holidays.
All the contractor linemen near me work 4-10’s.
OT is always available.
I’m 100% remote, but a 14 hour round trip commute isn’t doable.
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My God!
Soon people will be expecting to not have to work 80 hours a week, or even something as socialistic as vacations and sick days! We must stop such communistic degradation NOW! The elite, er the economy needs us to do our 120 hours a week, every week or the country will fall!
Your view is myopic and incorrect.
If I don’t do my work, no one else does.
There are keystroke loggers and metric tracking available.
Middle Managers are the most useless, minus HR, in my field.
Micromanaging no nothing salary wasters…
We had 4 day shifts back in 1995. The ONLY issue was the accounting for Holidays. Some employees got 8 hours for their holiday. Others got 10.
It was a quirky accounting/payroll thing.
Productivity can be measured for the types of jobs for which you can work from home. I don't know of any studies that state going into the office 5 days a week makes you more productive. However 4 10 hour days is a good compromise
I was burning $100 a week to commute. I don’t miss that.
I worked a ‘4 day week’ in the Santa Clara (silicon) valley
in the 70’s-90’s. It was supposed to be 10 hr days.
I usually did 5 to 6 10 hr days each week.
(A time card would have been profitable but the bonus pay was better.) We were on a roll.
I am certain it is myopic and incorrect to some. However, if I were running a factory that actually produced something, I would disagree with them.
Yea, but the article states a 32 hour work week. They are taking a pay cut. No company is going to pay more for less.
My wife has worked from home since late 2019 due to an medical issue. She dreads having to go back into the office. Her productivity has increased. She is a writer, so the lack of distractions (people stopping to chat and that kind of stuff) allows her to focus. She has taken on much more work during the same time.
Her department is t going back into the office anytime soon. They are actually converting their old space to “visiting staff” offices.
I know this isn’t everyone’s experience. But, depending on the structure and the job…it works well.
Everyone who likes it feels justified to defend it.
Regardless of anything.
It’s okay with me. I’ll be retired soon, but wonder how long it will take before our lack of industrial production catches up with my life savings and turns it into heating material.
The Hill is a progressive propaganda organ. I have to wonder if any of their report is true.
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