Posted on 01/12/2024 12:50:48 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The idea of a four-day workweek is catching attention. Young workers in particular see it as the wave of the future, while others worry it will undermine America prosperity.
Economists have pondered the viability of a four-day workweek since research by Janice Hedges in 1971. Recently, though, a magical idea has come to the fore: Let employees work one fewer day per week at the same hours per day and same pay, and they will accomplish just as much as in a standard five-day workweek.
All the fuss prompted us to ask several hundred American business executives and several thousand American workers some pertinent questions. What we uncovered is mundane, not magical. In the language of “Harry Potter,” there is support for a “muggle” version of the four-day workweek — but not for a magical one.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
I worked 4 10 hour days.
My favorite schedule was 4 ten hour days to still get a 40 hour check and a 3 day weekend every week...
Four tens are great. Then if they call you in on day five it’s all time-and-a-half.
My so-called 40hr/week positions were always anything but. Fifty hours/week was the norm, with 55-60hrs/week thrown in.
And just how does that work (ha ha)??
Does the Productivity Fairy fly by and sprinkle magic dust all over them??
SNORT.
It’s time and a half if you were an hourly employee. But if you are salaried those extra days don’t increase your pay
Worked at a factory for a while that only worked Monday through Thursday, but it was 10 hours per day.
Article says same hours, same pay and it won’t hurt productivity. Not really getting that part. By my math that’s 8 fewer hours per week, per employee assuming they’re pulling a 40 hour work week. Plus eight times however many employees work there’s worth of man hours of productivity is lost.
Unless I’m missing something I just don’t get the “same hours, same pay, no lost productivity” part
If the massive increases in the productivity of American workers in recent decades is not going to be compensated in anything like a commensurate manner, might as well get three day weekends.
Think of it as a golden parachute and stock compensations for blue collar guys.
I would have been most productive working 6, six hour days.
Of course I always wanted 8+ weeks off per year.
Except if you are a customer and there is no coverage for the person who decided to work 4 day weeks. It’s a horrible idea and the thought of Gen Z and Millennials doing this will only make it worse.
4 tens is kinda like working 2nd or 3rd shift......some people love it some hate it.
I see some folks here working 10 hour day 4 days per week happily
“...the massive increases in the productivity of American workers in recent decades...”
Does the White Basement have data links for that?
Any productivity analysis on Jao BiXiden’s performance during his reign?
Dilbert San Diego wrote: “It’s time and a half if you were an hourly employee. But if you are salaried those extra days don’t increase your pay.”
I was offered four tens. Wound up working four tens and one eight. (no overtime) I returned to five eights.
How? Probably in the exact same way the Laffer curve does for taxes and revenue. Everyone also “snorted” when Reagan cut taxes to raise revenue. Bush called it voodoo economics.
But same concept. Better morale, better work life balance, and people on 4 days actually work harder while there, knowing they don’t have 5 days to get this done.
Simpletons decide that they are missing out on that extra day of work so productivity is SURE to drop. But they forget to account for the fact that they are working with people, and not machines that can simply be run at that rate for more hours. By your logic a 6 day workweek would result in a 20% increase in productivity.
It doesn’t work that way.
Exactly
Less driving less preparing a lunch
More snack machines though lol 😆
I didn’t know what a four-day work week looked like either It was six and sometimes seven days a week. The whiners want four days, then they’ll want three, then two then one, then paid for staying home.
This crap about working from home and then only four days is advanced by slackers and others who want to see this country sink into idle television watchers, addicted to soap operas.
Eight Five’s might work for me if I had a short commute.
I’ve been working 4 10s for awhile as a tech in a local factory. One good point for the parents of young kids ... over time is on Friday so the weekends are still free for all their activities.
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