8 hours a day is also too long. 4 hour days, 4 days a week. That's my final offer mr capitalism

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I worked a place that did rotating shifts and we experimented a lot with different scheduling (sometimes out of necessity due to temporary understanding). And it's insane how I could still work an average of 40 hours per 7 days, but depending on the shift or the numbers of days on/off I'd feel much different. I generally felt like shit because rotating shifts killed my social life, but 4 10 hour shifts then 3 days off felt much better than 9-5 work with only weekends off.

  • TillieNeuen [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    I've shocked more people by pointing out that the 40 hr work week was not ordained by God himself and is something that could, in fact, be changed.

  • Not_irony [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Jobs are made up. Farmers are like 1% of people. Build some trains to move shit around so we can reduce the people driving trucks for no reason.

    Easy for me to imagine 2 day work weeks, 5 days off to keep society hmmming along.

  • hopelesscomrade [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Lol, Im working 10 hour days, 5 days a week. And due to bullshit. Ive done several 12 hours and Had to work has saturday.

    Im dead on the inside and nothing can really fix that.

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Ngl if we did have a 16 hour work week I'd end up doing 10 hours on Monday, 6 hours on Tuesday, and take a 5 day weekend

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I lived that life when I was trying to break into Theatre. 12 hour days, 6 day weeks - oh but I can only clock in for 50 hours because more than that is too much, so a ton of my work got done "on my own time".

    • Gay_Wrath [fae/faer]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Looks like it was a private study, but still

      The study asked then asked respondents, ‘If you had to state a figure, how long do you think you spend productively working during work hours on a daily basis?’ The results of this revealed the average answer to be ‘2 hours and 53 minutes’ of actual productivity in the workplace across all respondents.

  • ultraviolet [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    I support the 420 69 workweek. 4 hours per day, 20 hours per week, $69/hour wage.

  • vsaush [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Hell yeah, baby!

    We got people doing 40 hours or more a week (some at 50 or 60) and we got people languishing in unemployment. We can totally solve this shit by cutting the work week down in half (without a reduction in take home pay!)

  • asaharyev [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    IDK if I can get behind this. Does it really have to be 4 whole days out of the week?

  • RindlessWatermelon [they/them,he/him]
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    4 years ago

    It's partially a meme, but a 4-20-69 work week actually sounds pretty good right about now (that is 4 days, 20 hours total, $69 an hour)

  • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    lol, I went from 5 nights a week to 4 for three weeks a while back because I had some course on one of the days and needed the night off. Those three day weekends honestly felt like a fucking holiday lol. Sucks to be back on five days now