The CEO of my company responded to requests to trial a four day week by saying “America is not a socialist country”. He’s in his early 30s :what-the-hell:
The company I worked for before my current company actually did have a 4 day week. It made such a positive difference to my mental health.
To be fair, he is accurate in his assessment of the mode of production!
I'm fortunate enough to have the closest North American equivalent, which is working 4 10-hour days. I don't know what I'm going to do if I lose this job because the perpetual 3-day weekend has done wonders for my quality of life. I actually have time to do things now- just not on a work day, which was already the case with the 8-hour day.
The thing I miss the most about working in a hospital are the 12 hour days and 3 days a week schedule. Working 8 hour days 5 days a week fucking sucks and I can't ever fully decompress after a bad day so I've just progressively built up so much stress.
Same, it's incredible. Having that extra day means that I have a whole day to dedicate to doing tasks for myself. Whereas on a 2 day weekend you have to decide which of the three you aren't going to do 1)flat on your back recovery 2)socialize with friends and family 3) personal improvement and chores.
Also any tasks that require you to interface with some sort of 9-5 business that you were rushing to either before or after work can now be visited leisurely.
It's like having two Saturdays and the Sundays aren't as depressing
What's the materialist reasoning here? It seems everyone knows a four day workweek is better, and yet it never goes anywhere. Is 4 days in the office just not cruel enough?
My friend work went back to 4 days in the office even after a company wide vote had like 70% wanting to stay hybrid.
The reasoning given was legit just “the boomers owners and PMC feel lonely and useless at home”
I feel like it’s mostly that.
I guess so, but even they have to see the fact that it will help their bottom line right? Happier employees with no loss of productivity means less churn.
There's been studies going to back to at least the 90s suggesting that a 6-hour workday is more productive than 8, but no bosses have tried that either.
Makes sense the average producive work hours in an 8-hour day is like 4-5 from memory. The other hours are wasted. I suppose for stuff like essential work there would be argument that someone needs to be available over opening hours, but that'd be solvable with alternating shifts and hiring to fill the remainder.
In terms of three-day weeks, as a bonus, if you alternated the day off between a Monday and Friday week-on-week, you'd get fortnightly four-day weekends.
They did not care and even said as such lol
Also a big thing was them spending so much on buildings and wanting to get the full use from them.
“the boomers owners and PMC feel lonely and useless at home”
They unironically admitted that the low-rung workers also serve as babysitters for grown adults who are too dull to come up with anything to do on their own.
I joked about it before, and I will do so again. Underneath the thin veneer of some sort of honor culture, the American workplace is adult day care.
I saw a thing about how a four day workweek makes worker's lives so much better that they start focusing on things outside of work and that's Bad.
That clip lives rent free in my mind and will forever. Foundational Marxist text right there.
If doing nothing but working and then going to bed to get ready to work, only to eventually get murdered by a thrill-seeking nazi that will get off scot-free is "freedom", I think I'll make my chances in a totalitarian dystopia like....Iceland.
The materialist reason is bosses like bullying people:shrug-outta-hecks:
using percentages for small samples like 61 should be illegal.
just say "55 out of 61" or "56 out of 61"
In this case that would work, but if you're comparing the percentages for groups with various sizes, it becomes messier. 40 out of 45 vs 20 out of 23 is a lot harder to get a good intuition for as opposed to 0.89 vs 0.87.
the thing being compared here is companies staying with the short week and companies who have executives we should kill first
40 out of 45 vs 20 out of 23
bad example these are very easy to compare if you can do 2*23 in your head
i have a 4 day work week but 12 hour shifts . america moment :doomer:
