How would you feel about a 4-day work week?

Derrick
Derrick Posts: 475
edited March 2007 in A Moving Train
I personally resent that the norm is that we spend 5/7 days of the bulk of our prime years at work.

What are your pros/cons to the 32 hour work week?
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  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    I'm all in favor. I don't even care about cutting the hours ... I'd much prefer to work 4 longer days and have an extra day when I don't have to be here at all.
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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    Derrick wrote:
    I personally resent that the norm is that we spend 5/7 days of the bulk of our prime years at work.

    What are your pros/cons to the 32 hour work week?

    More overtime.
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  • floyd1975
    floyd1975 Posts: 1,350
    I think I worked 32 hours one week in 1998. Haven't gone below 45 since unless I was on vacation.
  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,337
    Derrick wrote:
    I personally resent that the norm is that we spend 5/7 days of the bulk of our prime years at work.

    What are your pros/cons to the 32 hour work week?

    If I could I'd work 4, 10 hour days instead of 5, 8 hour days.

    I can't do less hours in my line of work. I'm simply too busy.
  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    It's cool if you get paid SALARY!!!

    Don't forget about the people working 80 hours a week earning minimum wage. I wonder how they would feel about a 32 hour work week.

    I work hourly. My buddy who's salary called me on a Friday afternoon and was like, "why won't your boss let you off early on Friday?" I was like, "Because I have bills to pay and wouldn't even consider asking." ..of course I get over-time pay and he doesn't.
  • macgyver06
    macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
    40 hours is hardly work.
  • RockinInCanada
    RockinInCanada Posts: 2,016
    I refuse to work anything over 40 hours/week, I will not work for the man for free....just so you people know since I am considered a "professional" I am not allowed o/t and am on salary.....

    As for four days a week I am all for it.....
  • jlew24asu
    jlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    as an employee sure, i'm all for it. business owners might feel differently
  • RockinInCanada
    RockinInCanada Posts: 2,016
    jlew24asu wrote:
    as an employee sure, i'm all for it. business owners might feel differently

    lol...pretty safe to say that you could drop might and replace with will from your comment....:)
  • moeaholic
    moeaholic Posts: 535
    right out of high school i had a job that ran 10 hour shifts 4 days a week. i'd love to go back to that. 3 day weekend every week? why not? as for working 4 days a week, 8 hours a day.....no way. i'm accustomed to a 40 hour paycheck every week. my wife and i have a schedule with the bills. if i lost 32 hours a month, it'd fuck things up.
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  • surferdude
    surferdude Posts: 2,057
    Derrick wrote:
    I personally resent that the norm is that we spend 5/7 days of the bulk of our prime years at work.

    What are your pros/cons to the 32 hour work week?
    Then you should look for a job that allows you to work less hours. You'd probably make less but it sounds like to me that the additional time off is more important to you than the additional money.

    I know I'd sure resent it if someone legislated a 20% reduction in my pay by legislating a 32 hr work week.
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  • blackredyellow
    blackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    I would like to go to 4 - 10 hour days.... hell, i would like to go down to 40 hrs every week.

    I worked for a year loading baggage for an airline. Everyone swapped shifts, and the ideal schedule if you could pull it off was 2 doubles (16 hours) and a regular 8 hour day. You would get your full 40 hours and have 4 days off every week.
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  • he still stands
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    "... ociologists make short shrift of "work ethic" as a useful sociological concept because to have a "work ethic" in excess of management's control doesn't appear rational in any mature industry where the employee can't rationally hope to become more than a manager whose fate still depends on the owner's decisions. Sociology prefers to renarrate excess work ethic as a form of alienation from truer needs for family and community connections, and twentieth century "critical theory" sees the "work ethic" as a unilateral demand which evolved from a mass confusion between Max Weber's "Protestant work ethic" of company founders, and a sociologically uninteresting phenomenon (rare enough to not register on a mass radar screen) which in fact produces deviance (of interest to the sociologist) in the form of addiction and family neglect

    .... Many white collar employees, in a rational reaction to a demand for a "work ethic" involving the sacrifice of unpaid hours, cultivate a rhetorical "work ethic" consisting of external obeisance to absolute management control while producing little."

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  • Milestone
    Milestone Posts: 1,143
    I used to work 4 10 hour shifts. Loved it! 3 days off refreshed me soooooo much more than a 2 day weekend.

    However, I found that I slacked at work the last 2 hours of each night. And, I missed dinner with my wife and kid every night.

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  • MrBrian
    MrBrian Posts: 2,672
    How about siesta? That would be cool.
  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    I'm all for a 4 day work week. I work 9+ hours, 5/d/week and by the time it's Friday afternoon, I'm absolutely exhausted from the stress of working so much. I'm sure having to take care of a toddler doesn't make it easier, but the quality of life just isn't there when you work so much, unless you're married to your job.

    I used to work 12 hour shifts 3 days/wk, then 4 days/wk every other week. So, I'd have 4 days off one week, then 3 days off the next, if I didn't do overtime. The work hours were draining, but the days off were SOOO worth it!
  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    Derrick wrote:
    I personally resent that the norm is that we spend 5/7 days of the bulk of our prime years at work.

    What are your pros/cons to the 32 hour work week?

    I think a four day work week would help most families if they could earn the same amount of money. They'd have more time to care for their children and homes.

    I look at most of the families where both parents work and it's rush, rush, rush, cram-it-in, not-enough-hours-in-the-day. An extra day to take care of domestic things would be good I think. :)
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  • McCready00
    McCready00 Posts: 371
    Here in Québec, we tried 4 years ago to let the mother with a new-borned baby to work only 4 days a week. But the government who thought about it has not been elected. I'm glad to leave here specialy for the avant-garde ideas we often have. Our new electricity created with eoliens is getting ready good too.
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  • scw156
    scw156 Posts: 442
    my girlfriend is a nurse and works three 12 hour shifts and gets paid for 40 hours... she can make her own schedule for the most part too (as long as she gets her 3 shifts in for the week) so she can have 8 days off in a row if she fiddles with her schedule. yay for her.

    as for me, i just graduated college and am having the darnedest time finding a job... i wish i had the ability to complain about how many hours i work.


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  • Sludge Factory
    Sludge Factory Posts: 976
    justam wrote:
    I think a four day work week would help most families if they could earn the same amount of money. They'd have more time to care for their children and homes.

    I look at most of the families where both parents work and it's rush, rush, rush, cram-it-in, not-enough-hours-in-the-day. An extra day to take care of domestic things would be good I think. :)

    I like this idea and I wish that was the way things were. Time is definitely stretched thin with the rush mentality of today's society.

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