World’s largest ever four day week trial in Iceland ‘overwhelming success’

Post by glandium » Mon, Jul 05, 2021, 7:06 AM UTC

tobr wrote: post #74

manmal wrote: post #59

As a parent, I’m wondering whether a four day work week will carry over to the school week, too. When I was at school (this has stopped since) we had school on Saturday even, for two years. This was not great! Nearly all the arguments I’ve seen pro four hour work week, would also apply to students.

Unfortunately the purpose of school is for parents to have somewhere to store their children when they’re at work, so you can’t have a four-day school week until a four-day workweek is norm.

Post by prawn » Mon, Jul 05, 2021, 7:16 AM UTC

manmal wrote: post #59

As a parent, I’m wondering whether a four day work week will carry over to the school week, too. When I was at school (this has stopped since) we had school on Saturday even, for two years. This was not great! Nearly all the arguments I’ve seen pro four hour work week, would also apply to students.

Post by prawn » Mon, Jul 05, 2021, 7:52 AM UTC

ZephyrBlu wrote: post #65

NikolaNovak wrote: post #51

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>> Salaried work is by far the most lenient way to make money. Any other venture: a small business, a startup, an executive position, etc is way harder and more demanding. I've done both and I don't believe I'd agree with making it a generalization. At best, there may be some averages and medians, but it is not a universal statement that "all salaried work is more lenient than all small business / startup work". I've…

> I've done a successful small photography business. It was way way way less stressful, more satisfying than office work Ok, but did it generate more income? How many hours did you tend to work? Averages and medians are quite useful tools when you're analyzing something like a population. I don't think saying that a salaried job tends to be "the most lenient way to make money" is that controversial. Maybe you had a g…

Post by prawn » Mon, Jul 05, 2021, 7:54 AM UTC

AnimalMuppet wrote: post #52

akersten wrote: post #35

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Like all movements, there's more to it than just the name - don't take it too literally: working for myself is the ultimate goal! And if I ever do find success enough to require employees, I could never imagine asking them to spend 71% of their week thinking about me and my problems. Maybe it's easy to daydream egalitarian - but I think we as a society can do better for each other.

Many of us work 40 hours in 5 days. There are 168 hours in a week. That's 24% of the week, not 71%.

Post by bellyfullofbac » Mon, Jul 05, 2021, 8:22 AM UTC

ambicapter wrote: post #53

sandworm101 wrote: post #7

I work in a field (military) where "overtime" isn't a thing. We can and do work 24+hour shifts without any extra pay. Even during peacetime, if we need to work 16-hour days every day for a month we can do that without any financial cost. We can also be sent home at noon every day without diminishing our wages a penny. That absolute flexibility does not reduce stress. With no standard office hours we face constant neg…

You're in the military and you can't call "Bill" in for a meeting? This is not how I picture the military. I was under the impression push comes to shove, if your superior says you have to be somewhere, you _will_ be there, regardless of what its for.