4-day work week shown to be a success

[Brian37]

I've been working three day work week this summer. It's the tits. I also sometimes work as a bike delivery person, and literally work whatever hours I feel like. I could go out and do a couple of deliveries right now.

I think in the future more work will be like that and the whole concept of a work week will be obsolete.

It already is.

"Flexible hours" means you work when they say like a slave.

[Ravenshire]

Just switched to 4 10s after being on 5 8s or 9/80 schedules for the last six years and loving it. Including commute time, I'm actually committing less time to work on a four day week because my round trip is now 2 hours each day vs. 3+ when I'm stuck in rush hour both ways. The morning commute isn't any better, but, damn, the evening drive is a breeze.

[paulpablo]

My standard shifts are 5 days of 8 and a half hour shifts. 

I work as a security guard though so it's not like proper work, I'm used to working much harder in a physical job I used to have.

I take everyone else's hours, if someone is ill, lazy, unhealthy or whatever I take either the end or start of their shift and tell them they can come in late or go home early if they want.

I've worked 15 and a half hours in one day once, 2pm until 530am.

The most hours a week I worked I think was around 80.  Monday to Friday 12 hour shifts and a couple of 10 hour ones at the weekend. 

If I didn't like the people there/work with attractive women or didn't like the surroundings or found the job difficult in a bad way I probably would struggle even doing 8 hour shifts

[John V]

Odd that they're not more clear. Do they mean just getting a day off, or moving to 4 10-hour days?

The typical worker screws around half the day. So, it's pretty easy to just skip a day and yet still be as productive for the entire week - in the short term. Just screw around less each day. This study was only for 8 weeks.

The big question is, once people get used to the 4-day week, do they go back to their previous screw-around levels, thereby decreasing total production? I'm think that yeah, that's probably what will happen.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Just switched to 4 10s after being on 5 8s or 9/80 schedules for the last six years and loving it. Including commute time,  I'm actually committing less time to work on a four day week because my round trip is now 2 hours each day vs. 3+ when I'm stuck in rush hour both ways. The morning commute isn't any better, but, damn, the evening drive is a breeze.

Boss Lady works from 3 PM to 2 AM, with lunch and two breaks. She's ahead of the evening rush hour and owns the streets at 2 AM. (And she drove through Ferguson during the problems without a hassle.)

[CapnAwesome]

I've been working three day work week this summer. It's the tits. I also sometimes work as a bike delivery person, and literally work whatever hours I feel like. I could go out and do a couple of deliveries right now.

I think in the future more work will be like that and the whole concept of a work week will be obsolete.

It already is.

"Flexible hours" means you work when they say like a slave.

Not at the work I do.

[Seraphina]

I can work a compressed schedule with 4 days a week instead of 5 but it's not worth it. I would still have to get up at the same time on my day off to take my kid to school, so no sleeping in. And when I did work a compressed schedule, I would schedule appointments and such on my day off so it was never really a day off.

-Teresa

[Jackalope]

I get 26 three day weekends a year as of last April. We still put in 80 hours each two week period. I love it. I'd love four tens even more but they aren't going to do that.