Unpopular opinion: Weekdays/weekend split isn't for everyone
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#2we're still using 8 hour work days, now that's what i call retarded.
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#3I tend to agree.
There are some days in the week when I'm not checked in mentally and very unproductive. During those days, I'm better served to either sleep more or do something light to recharge for the next day/later in the week.
And then there are some days including the weekend where I can code for the entire day non-stop and feel energetic.
I still think having standardized days for working and rest is best for the sake of having multiple hours of operation overlap (e.g. schools, most businesses and government operations).
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#4I currently work a 4 day week with Wednesdays off and it's like magic
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#5That is an unpopular opinion in the same way that saying "The 40 hour work week isn't for everyone" is an unpopular opinion.
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#6It's pretty edgy to cast 'isn't for everyone' as an unpopular opinion.
Only a very small group of people are going to have a strong opinion about how other people should organize their work life. They mostly won't care. I suppose lots of managers will be in that group, but work is organized around weekends for lots of non-arbitrary reasons.
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#7I currently work a 4 day week with Wednesdays off and it's like magic
And to show how much of this is personal, during normal times, I'd consider a singleton day in the middle of the week an incredible waste relative to 3-day weekend (or even better a 4-day weekend once every two weeks) so that I could travel places.
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#8I currently work a 4 day week with Wednesdays off and it's like magic
And to show how much of this is personal, during normal times, I'd consider a singleton day in the middle of the week an incredible waste relative to 3-day weekend (or even better a 4-day weekend once every two weeks) so that I could travel places.
The Wednesday off is not so bad for this; 2 vacation days and you're looking at a 5 day holiday
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#9This was the topic of a video [0] posted by CGP Grey on the 25th August.
Not mainstream, but I think the idea has been popular for a while [1].
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>A manager went to his programmers and told them: "As regards to your work hours: you are going to have to come in at nine in the morning and leave at five in the afternoon." At this, all of them became angry and several resigned on the spot.
>So the manager said: "All right, in that case you may set your own working hours, as long as you finish your projects on schedule." The programmers, now satisfied, began to come in at noon and work to the wee hours of the morning.
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#10I worked for a startup that had an internal "story point meter" that would go up as you closed your tickets. The goal was to pressure employees into completing a certain number of story points per week the CEO considered a good number for a productive employee.
Needless to say, this didn't work as intended, and the workforce was split between those who didn't care about it (higher ups) and those who maxed up their meter by overestimating their tasks' story points.