I work a 4 day week; just don’t tell my boss.
Is the four-day workweek finally within our grasp?
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Re: Is the four-day workweek finally within our grasp?
#12I'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...
Yup… because their jobs may then go abroad as has been the trend for the past 20 years…
Re: Is the four-day workweek finally within our grasp?
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure would be a shame if the employees collectively bargained with the company for more reasonable policies...
Yup… because their jobs may then go abroad as has been the trend for the past 20 years…
An ultimately the company will suffer in quality, be bought by private equity and gutted in the next twenty years.
Re: Is the four-day workweek finally within our grasp?
#14I'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…
Obviously on-call has to cover holidays but Christmas eve is a work day for everyone (in an office) at your company? Why stay? That is simply barbaric
Re: Is the four-day workweek finally within our grasp?
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yup… because their jobs may then go abroad as has been the trend for the past 20 years…
An ultimately the company will suffer in quality, be bought by private equity and gutted in the next twenty years.
Unfortunately, most companies aren't looking past the next few quarters.
Re: Is the four-day workweek finally within our grasp?
#164 day work weeks as a concept real clicked for me when put into ratios. It's a 50% increase in personal time and only a 20% reduction in work hours.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure would be a shame if the employees collectively bargained with the company for more reasonable policies...
Yup… because their jobs may then go abroad as has been the trend for the past 20 years…
You can't ship pretty much any service industry job abroad.
Re: Is the four-day workweek finally within our grasp?
#18As long as a 4-day work week doesn't mean 10-hour work days.
Re: Is the four-day workweek finally within our grasp?
#19If you got no raise this year, working roughly two and a half hours less per week would bring your compensation back in line with inflation. If firms can't stomach wage increases this may be a valid alternative.
Re: Is the four-day workweek finally within our grasp?
#20As long as a 4-day work week doesn't mean 10-hour work days.
Working 5 10 hours work days (at least ) already , four would be great.