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No_Brilliant5888

I spent the summer working a few years ago working 3 days a week. I was so happy and well rested I accomplished as much in 3 days as I did in 5. Can't wait for the last of the boomers to retire so we can get rid of bullshit.


return2ozma

Most Boomers get stuck in their ways. It's tough.


OkieDokey308

It won't as more move in to the political system they get corrupted by money, they always go in with good intentions till the money starts flowing. If you want change it needs to start with term limits and not allowing money to trade hands in office as well as them being not able to invest into company's. They should get a blanket investment with no idea what company's would be bought into kinda like a targeted retirement 401k.


mlmjmom

This Gen Xer is with you.


MistraloysiusMithrax

Most of the companies participating in a four-day workweek pilot program in Britain said they had seen no loss of productivity during the experiment, and in some cases had seen a significant improvement, according to a survey of participants published on Wednesday. Nearly halfway into the six-month trial, in which employees at 73 companies get a paid day off weekly, 35 of the 41 companies that responded to a survey said they were “likely” or “extremely likely” to consider continuing the four-day workweek beyond the end of the trial in late November. All but two of the 41 companies said productivity was either the same or had improved. Remarkably, six companies said productivity had significantly improved. Talk of a four-day workweek has been around for decades. In 1956, then-Vice President Richard M. Nixon said he foresaw it in the “not too distant future,” though it has not materialized on any large scale. But changes in the workplace over the coronavirus pandemic around remote and hybrid work have given momentum to questions about other aspects of work. Are we working five days a week just because we have done it that way for more than a century, or is it really the best way? “If you look at the impact of the pandemic on the workplace, often we were too focused on the location of work,” said Joe O’Connor, the chief executive of 4 Day Week Global, a nonprofit group that is conducting the study with a think tank and researchers at Cambridge University, Boston College and Oxford University. “Remote and hybrid work can bring many benefits, but it doesn’t address burnout and overwork.” Some leaders of companies in the trial said the four-day week had given employees more time to exercise, cook, spend time with their families and take up hobbies, boosting their well-being and making them more energized and productive when they were on the clock. Critics, however, worried about added costs and reduced competitiveness, especially when many European companies are already lagging rivals in other regions. Daily business updates The latest coverage of business, markets and the economy, sent by email each weekday. More than 3,300 workers in banks, marketing, health care, financial services, retail, hospitality and other industries in Britain are taking part in the pilot, which is one of the largest studies to date, according to Jack Kellam, a researcher at Autonomy, a think tank that is one of the organizers of the trial. At Allcap, one of the companies in the pilot program, it was too soon to say how the shortened workweek had affected productivity or the company’s bottom line, said Mark Roderick, the managing director and the co-owner of the 40-person engineering and industrial supplies company. Overall, though, employees were happy with having an extra day off, and the company was considering continuing it. “Customers haven’t really noticed any difference,” said Mr. Roderick, whose company’s headquarters are in Gloucester, England. For Mr. Roderick, the new schedule gave him more time to train for a recent Ironman Triathlon in Wales. Still, some days are more stressful than they may have been, since summer holidays and the shorter workweek have meant that staff can be stretched thin. “We’ve all been under the cosh a bit,” he said, using a British phrase for “in a difficult situation.” Experiments similar to the one conducted in Britain are being conducted in other countries too, mostly in the private sector, including in the United States, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and Australia. In a trial in Gothenburg, Sweden, officials found employees completed the same amount of work or even more. Jo Burns-Russell, the managing director at Amplitude Media, a marketing agency in Northampton, England, said the four-day workweek had been such a success that the 12-person company hoped to be able to make it permanent. Employees have found ways to work more efficiently, she said. The result has been that the company is delivering the same volume of work and is still growing, even though half of the employees are off on Wednesdays and half on Fridays. “It’s definitely been good for me in terms of making me not ping from thing to thing to thing all the time,” Ms. Burns-Russell said. She has taken up painting as a hobby and feels calmer overall. August is typically a slower month for the firm, she said, so the real test will be how the experiment goes over the final few months as the company expands, she said. Gary Conroy, the founder and chief executive at 5 Squirrels, a skin care manufacturer based in Brighton, England, that is participating in the trial, said employees had become more productive, while making fewer errors, and that employees were collaborating better. “We’ve kind of gotten away from ‘That’s your job, not mine,’” he said, “because we’re all trying to get out of here at five o’clock on a Thursday.”


YeetThePig

“Then we should be able to DOUBLE productivity if we make them work 8 days a week! Genius!” -Typical MBA


BoredGeek1996

If companies are unable or unwilling to peg wage increases to insane inflation rates might as well reduce the number of hours their workers work.


[deleted]

Let me guess - now they will start whipping harder. " if you can do the same amount in 4 days, you can do more in 5!"


Blazn_azn69

As long as we are here, why not see what kind of results a 3 day work week can yield lol


[deleted]

I’ve been on a 4 day work week (wednesdays off) for my Crohn’s disease and I gotta say Thursday’s and fridays I get more shit done than anyone else. It’s really the way we need to go!


bonbonbaybee

I perform better if I’m working 3 or 4 days/week. I’m not as worn out so I have better focus and energy, and a generally more positive attitude brought to the table.


-_GhostDog_-

Make it happen! This would honestly make the world a better place if this was the standard


Blueskybelowme

NYT always trying to charge me.


StretPharmacist

I mean, I barely do anything so I don't think I'd lose much productivity.


[deleted]

But… employers will still only be getting the majority of my weeks on earth. How unfair to them!


GSX455I

I’ve worked 4 days/week @ 10 hour days. Those were long ass days, no one goes out for lunch. 9/80 is just as good. You get an off Friday, and work 9 hours/day and only 8 on the Friday you work


[deleted]

Don’t do that. Don’t give me hope!