Personally I would much prefer to have a 6h work day or 6,5 hour (for it to be 32h, like the 4-day work week) than to have 8 hours a day for 4 days. I don’t care about having one more day of free time if I still don’t have as much time during 4 days of the week. I would much rather work less time those 5 days so that I actually have time to cook, exercise and do my shit every single day.
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Damaskox@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’ve heard that Sweden did a research about 6 hours long work day (not the same thing as less work days I know).
The results were simply that the workers were more happy and more efficient.
GyozaPower@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
unfreeradical@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Either is just as good as the other, in the grand scheme.
Just keep taking away cards, one and then another, until the whole house falls.
hubobes@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I work 7h a day, some day soon I will go to 6.5. I would always choose that over a 4 day work week. Because now I have actual evenings where I can do things. 7 days a week.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 7 months ago
People just tune out after a while, and looking busy is not the same as being busy. Management just doesn’t want to get that.
unfreeradical@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They get it, but to them the only good worker is one who is well controlled.
If a work week of thirty two hours would be proved equally productive as one of forty, if the reduction makes no important difference for society at large, then i may begin to seem as though a twenty hour work week is equally possible, such that while the idea is being considered, workers will discover new opportunities for self care and community care, discover new relationships with hobbies and leisure, and expand their identities into new aces and directions.
After not too much time passes. a critical mass of workers might start to feel convinced that the whole system is a house of cards, built only on hea and deception, and deserving be dismantled in favor of a one that is new and different.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Too true