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.
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For years, we worked 10-hour shifts 4 days a week. Most people didn’t like it, but I did.
Go for it. Leave the government out of the rule-setting. Won’t happen.
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Wait, I'm retired, I have a 7 day do-whatever-I-want-week. 😁
Also...32 hours per week...what is the parttime/fulltime cutoff for health insurances?
I guess everyone can go on 0bamacare on their own nickel...
Dumbass idea; especially that part about same production. LOL.
The truth of the matter is that most people are useless.
I was working at a government site years ago. The locker room that I used for my bathroom breaks had a broken sink, with the new sink in the box.
The following week the sink was out of the box and sat there for two weeks.
Week 3 the sink was out of it’s plastic and parts on the floor. It sat like that for at least another 2 weeks and my job was over, so never did see the completed project.
The government workers were on 4/10’s. My contact said he was working on a project and you can’t yell at them or you’ll get written up. He said the most he could do was to plead with them. “If you can please just give me 4 hours of good solid work a day we can get this project back on track.” It didn’t work.
10% of the people do 90% of the work.
And just how does that work (ha ha)??
Because most employees can do their usual five hours of actual work just as easily in a four day week as in a five day week. :)
I worked 4 days 10 hours day for the last 24 years and loved having those three days off! Now I work 5 9 hours days and then 4 9 hours day the next week and get off 3 days. I miss those 4-10’s!
Yep. Where I worked we called that the 5-4-9 schedule....very popular with the workforce
I love this next generation. They give me job security.
When I had a small business way back in the 1970’s, we tried working four 9 hour days and 4 hours on Friday. Employees all liked it and we made it permanent.
What I saw was a lot of time wasted in small-talk, long lunches (written down as if they were much shorter, of course), etc.
In some of these offices, the assigned work did get done on time; but it seemed like a waste to me - fewer people could have done it.
(On the other hand, some workplaces were incredibly top-heavy, when lower level employees were what was needed.)
Yeah, these clowns all want to work 4 days a week.
But they turn into animals if the service they want is not available 24x7.
If you are getting 40 hours of “work” done in 32…then you did not have 40 hours work to do.
They are talking about 32 hours for full time. A fourth day, which would put you at 40 hours, would be “overtime.” They are not talking about 4x10.
We used to have people work 4x10 and it was fine. But we were a 24x7 operation so we could construct multiple shifts around it. That said, if you are talking about a 24x7 operations then shifting people to a 32 hour week would be at least a 20% increase in staffing.
I always thought 24x7 service was stupid…but some customers expect it. I guess they will pay for it.
I remember my grandfather working a similar schedule back in the day at the paper mill... We always used to go to the beach on his 4 day weekends during the summer time.
Total crap.
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.
It might work. Chances are it won’t work as well.
People take vacation. People get sick. When you work with others, and need other people to do certain things at critical points and they aren’t there, things grind to a stop. This already happens in a 5-day work week. Now take away another day every week.
Yea, yesterday was 18 hours. I also worked last Saturday and Sunday. In March I already know that I’ll be working about 25 days in a row.
I do make up some of the lost weekends but not all.
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