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Not as tax efficient though unfortunately. Maybe it doesn't make as much difference in the States where income tax is extremely low.
Actually I looked up California income tax and it isn't as low as I thought.
The consequences would be terrible! We would have to wait 18 months between each iteration of Iphone instead of 12. Amazon would deliver at day+2. Uber Eats would answer: "No slave available. Sorry, you will have to cook". Simply unacceptable !!! Now go back to work 5 days a week!
How do you explain the "paradoxical magic" in the final third of the article where, in every historical case of shortening work hours, "management was surprised to discover that output actually increased — and that expensive mistakes and accidents decreased"? Or the recent example of the Boston firm that took a day off in the middle of every week, and whose clients "reported an improvement in service"?
Are there any examples of companies going to a 4-day-week and reporting decreased productivity?
Our society is such that we typically work 8 out of 24 hours(33%), 5 out of 7 days(71%) and 11 out of 12 months(91%), with exceptions ofcourse. All those aeons of evolution so as to come out of our caves and settle for this? IMHO we should be working less and have more free time for activities that would be good for our spirits/souls/minds. Where are the robots, AI and all the other technological wonders that we were…
In my opinion we as a society are addicted to work.
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I’d rather have every second weekend 3 days off instead. 8 days in a row sounds just awful
I think they meant 5 day work week and 3 day weekend = 8 day week
A 6 day week, 4 days on, 2 days off would be much easier to devise a calendar for I think.
Our society is such that we typically work 8 out of 24 hours(33%), 5 out of 7 days(71%) and 11 out of 12 months(91%), with exceptions ofcourse. All those aeons of evolution so as to come out of our caves and settle for this? IMHO we should be working less and have more free time for activities that would be good for our spirits/souls/minds. Where are the robots, AI and all the other technological wonders that we were…
I always think you should look at the effective free time you have left. I can't do much in my sleep (-8h), I can't do much on my commute (-1.5h), I can't do much in my lunch break (I have to take a 45 minute lunch break by law, it's way too short to use it as actual free time, but takes another significant chunk out of your day.)
I get to 24h-8h-8h-1.5h-0.75h = 5.75h of E.F.T. that's only 24% of your day you actually have for yourself, assuming comparatively reasonable western working times and pretty average commute times.
76% of your day is not effectively free time.
While I support this in theory, the news source looks less than credible. On another article they suggest that medical professionals as well as IT professionals were becoming "dead career fields" which is very odd.If you look at hiring statistics in the latter at the very least, you will see that this is somewhat alarmist.
If the author is referring to corporate IT I do agree this niche is dying. Business support isn’t a great place to be. Operational roles in product typically pay better and give you a greater opportunity to make an impact.
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Oh my god yes. Actually we should work 6 days a week, imagine how fast the new Iphone would come out!!
Have you considered what would happen if we added meth to the drinking water? People wouldn't sleep and could work twice as long!
Even if you have a 3 day weekend, you still need to have proper long blocks off work. I used to take days off on Friday or Monday to get longer weekends in lieu of taking whole weeks. It's nice to have a long weekend but I found since taking more longer blocks (week or more) it's a lot better for you to fully switch off work (usually takes a few days to switch off completely).
People obviously vary. I've worked with people who didn't have any particular trouble taking time off but they just didn't like travel and preferred just expanded weekends. For myself, I'd rather have most of the time for longer trips with just some longer weekends here and there.