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Putting in 6 days to get 3 is a -50% ROI, not much better than -60% ROI of the five-day work week. I propose Profito: A 3-day week for a profitable life. For every 3 days you work, you get 4 days free.
In many competitive professions, your outcomes are based on your rank, or it is winner take most after a cutoff.
So sometimes being 1 percent better gives 1000x rewards.
Putting in 6 days to get 3 is a -50% ROI, not much better than -60% ROI of the five-day work week. I propose Profito: A 3-day week for a profitable life. For every 3 days you work, you get 4 days free.
How do you calculate the ROI? In many competitive professions, your outcomes are based on your rank, or it is winner take most after a cutoff. So sometimes being 1 percent better gives 1000x rewards.
holy shit that sounds awful, i cannot imagine working for 6 straight days even with a 3 day weekend! I guess it's a marginal improvement in that there are only 2 work days per rest day but it's still wild to me that 6 back to back work days are being touted as "balanced", i think we can generally agree that 3 day weekends on a 7 day week are acceptable, and that's 1.333 (repeating of course) rest days per work day. I…
Yeah the six straight days would be brutal, even if the days were shorter. Maybe a 3-1-3-2 would be alright (if we're cool with non-7 day weeks). But if we're getting wild, how about a 3-2-3-2 approach?
Alternatively, if you hate 9 hour days, 9 days of 8 hours each every 2 weeks.
It'll lower road congestion and get people a lot more free time than the hours cut by reducing commute.
The workday as described in this article (8am to 2:30pm) does leave plenty of time to spend with family, friends and on hobbies, even on weekdays.
I don't have full control of my schedule at the minute, but if I did this could be quite interesting
I do not like the idea of being relaxing at the end of the week, why not give yourself a break during the week? Some say "oh but I'd need two days off for kids/family/travel" — if you have flexible hours, you can move stuff around and take those two or more days off whenever you want.
In any case, what is insane is working 8 hours a day, not 5 days a week. If you want to work less and enjoy life more, work fewer hours in a day.
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How do you calculate the ROI? In many competitive professions, your outcomes are based on your rank, or it is winner take most after a cutoff. So sometimes being 1 percent better gives 1000x rewards.
Only if that moves you into that last 1%.
I'm not sure I see the benefits. I personally enjoy the 3+2 week: work Mon-Wed, Thursday off, work Fri-Sat, Sunday off. Basically spreading the weekend over the entire week. I do not like the idea of being relaxing at the end of the week, why not give yourself a break during the week? Some say "oh but I'd need two days off for kids/family/travel" — if you have flexible hours, you can move stuff around and take those…
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I find the comments on HN a bit harsh (at the time of writing anyway). The workday as described in this article (8am to 2:30pm) does leave plenty of time to spend with family, friends and on hobbies, even on weekdays. I don't have full control of my schedule at the minute, but if I did this could be quite interesting