4-day work week shown to be a success

[Kitan Etos]

[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.

[AFTT47]

I'm surprised at that result.

I work a 4 x 10 hours work week - and I find it hard. I'm 59 years-old and most of my co-workers are of a similar age. Most of us struggle with our long, work day. But we all love it. We positively LOVE our 4-day work week, giving us 3-days off every week. We wouldn't want it any other way.

I feel like I'm less productive with this schedule and most of my co-workers feel the same. But we would never tell our boss! We LOVE our schedule.

Maybe our job-satisfaction makes up for it. Few of us would be willing to work for better pay for another employer if we had a 5 x 8-hour week. That extra day off for us is gold and I think we would kill to keep it.

[purplepurpose]

It's only for rich countries.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Boss Lady works the 4X10 and gets the occasional four day weekend when there's a Monday holiday. She's done this for five years now and is quite used to it.

[Angrboda]

It's not clear from your post, does the article say that productivity and output remained the same? I think that's the main worry about four day work weeks, that employers will get less out of their workers for the same amount of money. I think it's a no-brainer that the employees would benefit in numerous ways.

[Bob Kelso]

I currently work a 3 1/2 work week, which is three 12 hour shifts with a six hour shift, it’s awesome. Sure I don’t get to do anything but work part of the week but having so many days off is pretty great.

More time for the kiddos and vidya games.

[Angrboda]

[brewer]

If your were a wage employee the last place I worked they gave you a choice if you were in a specific job. Either 5 eights, 4 tens or 3 twelves.

Us salaried  fucks usually put in around 50 to 55hrs/week, but the difference in pay/perks was definitely worth it.

[Crossless2.0]

I've had jobs that involved four ten-hour shifts per week and loved it.

These days, I work twelve on and two off, and I'm technically on-call 24 hours during my duty days.

I do miss three-day weekends, but I get paid more now than I have in the past.

Trade-offs.