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More bosses give four-day workweek a try

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Re: More bosses give four-day workweek a try

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Post by Nullabillity »

tasuki wrote: post #156
fjp wrote: post #146

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Agreed, the one thing I have promised myself is to never have a commute over 35 minutes. I even found a 35 minute commute to an internship in the suburbs disheartening when it was mostly spent sitting in traffic. It's insane to waste that much of your daily life shuttling to your job (if you have an option, which I hope to remain lucky enough to have).

The commute is not the problem, the car is. In Amsterdam I commuted 45 minutes by bike and it was great. I really miss it now that I work from home.

Or.. maybe people just have different outlooks?

I used to ebike for an hour each way, and it was torture. Now it's a ~20min drive and 30mins of the commuter train. Still pretty miserable, but at least it's not raining directly into my eyes anymore.

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Post by timwaagh »

honestly would be pretty bad for singles who just want to hustle and make some money to afford plans later in life. i can see the appeal for families to take some time off, but currently there are enough facilities for dad-days and the like (at least, where i am). yes you need to pay for those, as is only fair. If this becomes law i'd guess the 'solution' for a lot of people would be to take two jobs. suddenly these plans dont look so amazing anymore.

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Post by tren »

perfunctory wrote: post #213
kosii wrote: post #100

I'm a software engineer, I started working 4 days/32 hours per week about a month ago, and I couldn't be happier :)

I started working 4 days/32 hours I think about a decade ago. Never looked back.

I was 4 days 32 hours for 7 years, now I do 3 days 24 hours. It has allowed me to spend time a lot of time with my boy. Now that he's started school I generally work on side projects in my 2 extra days and do the school pickups. Of course there are days where you don't feel like coding so you can read a book, do chores, go to the beach.

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Post by tren »

combatentropy wrote: post #208

I'm still waiting for someone to do a study of a three-day (24-hour) work week.

I've been doing this for 3 years now and it works great for me. 3/4 of our company are 4 days or less a week and in the last 5 years we've turned a loss making company into something quite profitable. We generally have one short meeting a week, outside of that we do 1 on 1s when necessary. The rest of the time we can sit down and focus 100%.

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Post by bash-j »

In Australia it's pretty common to be paid for 38 or 36 hours a week and take a RDO (rostered day off) once a month or fortnight depending on what you choose. This plus minimum 4 weeks paid annual leave for full timers, 2 weeks paid sick leave, 13 weeks paid long service leave if you have worked at the same company for 10 years, paid parental leave, carers leave, grievance leave, volunteer leave, etc. If you work casual hours then you usually receive a 17.5% more per hour. Weekends and public holidays usually attract higher wages too.

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Post by guntars »

GordonS wrote: post #212
mjayhn wrote: post #18

I can't begin to explain how much less stress I encounter in day to day life having just one week day to stay home. Just having a day to be able to easily knock out chores between Jira issues; drop the car off at the dealer, sell something on craigslist, complete a house project, go to the dentist, meet the handyman, go to the bank, etc is so nice. All of these things wind up on the back burner when I'm in the middle…

Around 5 years back, I went from 5 days a week to 4, taking a 20% paycut in the process. It was one of the best decisions I've ever made - it feels like I have so much more time for family, side projects and hobbies than I ever did before. And for reference, I work around 90% from home. TBH, the company I work for has got a pretty good deal out of this, as I'm sure my productivity hasn't dropped at all. (it's a mega…

It's a 20% paycut, but a 50% increase in free time! I'm doing the same thing btw, taking every Wednesday off and I love it - it breaks up the week and having the whole extra day for fun projects is totally worth the money to me.

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Post by cortesoft »

BowBun wrote: post #223
bumby wrote: post #150

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Isn’t that the case for everyone working a standard 5 day week, single, kids, or not?

No. A good amount of reasonable/compassionate companies like mine don't care if you take 2 hours to go to the DMV during work hours. I'm very fortunate

But that still doesn’t have anything to do with having kids or not.

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Post by timwaagh »

jacquesm wrote: post #157
nagyf wrote: post #64

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Source for this? I'm from Europe and I have friends working in 2-3 different countries in Europe, but 32 hour workweek is not standard anywhere. Never even heard of such a thing being standard in Europe.

It depends on the country. Sweden, Denmark, Norway, NL, Germany, Switzerland, France. Others probably less so, depending on how well the economy is and general attitude towards workers rights. Eastern Europe much less so, in some cases (Romania, Bulgaria) conditions are still terrible.

Lawful workweek in nl is 40 hours I'd wager the others are similar, with perhaps one exception.

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Post by vonmoltke »

bradleyjg wrote: post #195
kempbellt wrote: post #172

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I had the same experience when I lived in NYC. A 45 minute commute on the subway was a lot less stressful than the 45 minute bumper-to-bumper driving commute I do now (in Seattle). I would usually play mindless puzzle games and listen to music on my commute. Other people mention the train delays being stressful, but my company had a standing "subway delays ¯\_(ツ)_/¯" attitude about showing up late. People would show…

I’ve never pulled a laptop out on the subway but the LIRR or MNR is a different story.

I have occasionally used a laptop on an NJT train. Usually I don't have space (when I even get a seat).

Now I take the bus, and I never have space at least not for my work laptop. I should have gotten the 13" instead of the 15".

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