Is the four-day workweek finally within our grasp?
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#2I would actually love a 4.5 day workweek, where the half-day is up to the employee to take.
Re: Is the four-day workweek finally within our grasp?
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#4I would actually love a 4.5 day workweek, where the half-day is up to the employee to take.
My company started 1/2 day Fridays a few months ago in what was billed as a temporary experiment. Today it was announced that we'd be keeping them permanently. From my point of view it has been a big improvement for everyone there. Having some time to play with my daughter during the day time is great, especially during winter while the days are short and the sun is already down by the time I am done working.
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#5I would actually love a 4.5 day workweek, where the half-day is up to the employee to take.
We had something like that at my work. From June-Aug we had "Summer Hours" where we would not have any meetings after 2pm and could stop working if then if there was nothing vital. Not exactly half day but still nice, though not sure why it's just for summer time...
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#6I'm currently working for a company that forces office staff to work a half day on christmas eve with the additional stipulation, of course, that you must burn a full day of vacation to skip it. This despite the fact that no one in the company can ever remember a customer calling on christmas eve.
So I'm very skeptical that this trend will grow. It took the IWW to get us the concepts of The Weekend and Sick Days, and I expect it will take nothing less extreme to claw back any more of our time from the corporate slave-driving overlords. Absent a few easily-dismissed outliers, of course.
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#7I started working a 4 day work week a few years ago and would not go back. The benefits to the employee are obvious, but consider those for the company: it gets a motivated, energised employee, and if like me they're a parent or for some other reason the employee has appointments (school, Dr etc), the employee often schedules them during the day off (or moves the day off to accomodate them), meaning the employee isn't taking any time off (usually, paid!) for them - I suspect I've had a lot less PTO than fulltime colleagues.
Re: Is the four-day workweek finally within our grasp?
#8I started working a 4 day work week a few years ago and would not go back. The benefits to the employee are obvious, but consider those for the company: it gets a motivated, energised employee, and if like me they're a parent or for some other reason the employee has appointments (school, Dr etc), the employee often schedules them during the day off (or moves the day off to accomodate them), meaning the employee isn'…
And less sick days probably.
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#9I would actually love a 4.5 day workweek, where the half-day is up to the employee to take.
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Re: Is the four-day workweek finally within our grasp?
#10I'm currently working for a company that forces office staff to work a half day on christmas eve with the additional stipulation, of course, that you must burn a full day of vacation to skip it. This despite the fact that no one in the company can ever remember a customer calling on christmas eve. So I'm very skeptical that this trend will grow. It took the IWW to get us the concepts of The Weekend and Sick Days, and…
Sure would be a shame if the employees collectively bargained with the company for more reasonable policies...