Productivity and the Workweek (2000)
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Productivity and the Workweek (2000)
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Re: Productivity and the Workweek (2000)
#2Something like 30 hours a week, 4 days a week cant come soon enough.
Right now I work 40-45, 5 days a week and it feels like all I do is work and chores.
Re: Productivity and the Workweek (2000)
#3Something like 30 hours a week, 4 days a week cant come soon enough. Right now I work 40-45, 5 days a week and it feels like all I do is work and chores.
Have you heard of biphasic sleep? 6 hours at night and a 20 minute nap saves 12 hours a week.
I've been doing it with my wife for 4 years, feel good and it's made me happier.
Wake up after work like it's a new day.
I'm one of the rare types that like working, and this has me doing 40 hrs plus home projects.
Re: Productivity and the Workweek (2000)
#4Something like 30 hours a week, 4 days a week cant come soon enough. Right now I work 40-45, 5 days a week and it feels like all I do is work and chores.
Two questions
Are many companies offering 4 day weeks? I’d guess yes.
Can people afford to live off a 4 day week salary? I’d guess no in general.
Re: Productivity and the Workweek (2000)
#5Something like 30 hours a week, 4 days a week cant come soon enough. Right now I work 40-45, 5 days a week and it feels like all I do is work and chores.
Two questions Are many companies offering 4 day weeks? I’d guess yes. Can people afford to live off a 4 day week salary? I’d guess no in general.
I would be more than happy to work 1 day per week and live with 20% of my current salary.
I believe a lot of people can accept 80% salary for 4 days per week.
Re: Productivity and the Workweek (2000)
#6Something like 30 hours a week, 4 days a week cant come soon enough. Right now I work 40-45, 5 days a week and it feels like all I do is work and chores.
Two questions Are many companies offering 4 day weeks? I’d guess yes. Can people afford to live off a 4 day week salary? I’d guess no in general.
Offering 4-day weeks: Do you see this often? Just curious -- I feel like it's rare, so my guess would be the opposite. (I do know several people that work 4 10hr days as machinists or window installers).
My intuition is also the opposite of yours on affordability :), at least in tech...
Re: Productivity and the Workweek (2000)
#7Something like 30 hours a week, 4 days a week cant come soon enough. Right now I work 40-45, 5 days a week and it feels like all I do is work and chores.
30 hours a day seems quite extreme to me.
Re: Productivity and the Workweek (2000)
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Two questions Are many companies offering 4 day weeks? I’d guess yes. Can people afford to live off a 4 day week salary? I’d guess no in general.
I would be more than happy to work 1 day per week and live with 20% of my current salary. I believe a lot of people can accept 80% salary for 4 days per week.
My previous company allowed people to work 4 days for 80% pay. Out of 60 people, 3 people took advantage of that.
Re: Productivity and the Workweek (2000)
#9Living standards remained constant while productivity went up?
Interesting. I have a multi color LED strip I'm looking at. Posting this on the internet from a smartphone in a far bigger house than a 1950s engineer, my car has worked for 12 years....
Here is a question, can we take this author seriously? Citations are nice, but it doesn't meet with reality.
Why is this author proposing living standards are the same?
Re: Productivity and the Workweek (2000)
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would be more than happy to work 1 day per week and live with 20% of my current salary. I believe a lot of people can accept 80% salary for 4 days per week.
My previous company allowed people to work 4 days for 80% pay. Out of 60 people, 3 people took advantage of that.
Which company? Whenever I offered to work 60% of the time for 50% of the money I was flat out rejected.