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msbud msbud
October 17, 2022 at 4:11 pm
Yes, free Friday please !!!
Daniel Adams
October 17, 2022 at 4:11 pm
What about the hospitality industry?
EVA MORENO
October 17, 2022 at 4:30 pm
Same
puni
October 17, 2022 at 4:13 pm
Indian managers laughing in “cost cutting mode ” 🤣
Sky Gravity
October 17, 2022 at 4:14 pm
While we’re at it, dismantle the corporate wealth extraction system and start letting the producers actually feel the benefits of their work
Amanda ach
October 17, 2022 at 4:14 pm
No duh. But does our government and companies actually CARE? A: No. We’d be more productive if they paid us a bigger wage so we could focus instead of stress about bills but they aren’t doing that either. And if they disposed of their waste properly they wouldn’t polute the only planet we have, but they don’t want to do that either. Go us.
david lindsay
October 17, 2022 at 4:20 pm
If people would DO the work.
EVA MORENO
October 17, 2022 at 4:30 pm
True
NoticeMe Portgas
October 17, 2022 at 4:23 pm
Really doubt it, the government doesn’t need to touch anyone’s company. You would destroy our family business. We work 6 days a week most of the time because no one wants to wait an extra month or year to build their building. This is privileged offices talk right here
Otto Bhan
October 17, 2022 at 6:42 pm
When workers regain their deserved appropriate wages and labor gets guaranteed 40 hrs/wk, 1.5x time & double time pay over 40 hrs compensation (earning employer’s matching benefits support… worker productivity increases, people will spend more and the businesses will finally share the actual costs of doing business as before this crushing transfer of wealth to the top slows and becomes better balanced for all workers.
NoticeMe Portgas
October 18, 2022 at 12:45 am
@Otto Bhan no body deserves anything. Take away minimum wage and all the people who actually try will flourish. Minimum caps people’s growth off the bat
Solinoctis
October 17, 2022 at 4:27 pm
I work the 4 day week. I absolutely love it
Renan Correa
October 17, 2022 at 5:37 pm
what do you work with?
Mark Scott
October 17, 2022 at 4:34 pm
The three day week is even better
cris
October 17, 2022 at 4:59 pm
The 3 day week was bad
Mark Scott
October 17, 2022 at 5:01 pm
@cris two day week will be much better.
Patricia Dawson
October 17, 2022 at 5:01 pm
I worked in the HR Office of a abattoir, and it was 4 on 4 off. It was awesome, I hated the job, but the hours were great.
Gotta Go
October 17, 2022 at 5:04 pm
Working on my new TED talk: the 3-day week
Marvelous Ifezue
October 17, 2022 at 9:22 pm
Make that 2
Observational Hazard
October 17, 2022 at 10:47 pm
Oh my goodness, could you imagine? 13 hour work days seems worse than 10 even if it’s only for 3 days instead of 4.
Damas
October 17, 2022 at 5:13 pm
I agree, but that is not the way they want it to be in many companies.
Alex Edwards
October 17, 2022 at 5:59 pm
Why do we need government help if it benefits companies? If companies were truly better off giving their employees an extra day off they would do it on their own without being compelled to do so by the government.
Nature lover
October 17, 2022 at 6:02 pm
Does this entail a pay cut?
AutoSneak
October 17, 2022 at 6:31 pm
I think same hours but crammed in 4 instead of 5 days
M.K.
October 17, 2022 at 6:37 pm
If labor was largely replaced by robotic workers, production would be cheaper, resulting in lower costs of goods and services across the board, necessitating less income and thereby fewer work hours. We could bring labor back to 1st world countries and rely less on cheap labor in countries with questionable labor practices such as China. This could usher in a new golden age of abundance and quality of life. We are at a point technologically, where we should be able to create affordable, intelligent, and universally applicable robotic workers, and we should support that effort as a society.
Amit Dahal
October 17, 2022 at 8:13 pm
Agree, more hrs don’t necessarily mean more productively
Amit Dahal
October 17, 2022 at 8:14 pm
So many meetings set by higher ups to give orders are so lame
Marvelous Ifezue
October 17, 2022 at 9:24 pm
The 4 day work week, like at the beginning of the introduction of the 5 day work week might feel new and might have these advantages
But i think if you give it enough time, it would become normal and ted talks with the 3 day work days would begin
Although im on her side
Kyle Williams
October 17, 2022 at 9:42 pm
4 day week will work… but the government needs to “help”… slips into communism… millions die 👍
James 007
October 17, 2022 at 9:58 pm
Alternate consecutive days off as well!!!
HorseWaterDrink
October 17, 2022 at 10:33 pm
my boss would say sure 4 ,14 hour days
SeenByMichael
October 17, 2022 at 10:33 pm
Yes! More government help 🙄
800 Channels and counting!
October 17, 2022 at 10:53 pm
10+ hours a day…no thanks
ゆぐどら
October 18, 2022 at 12:39 am
On the other hand, some japanese people work more than 20 consecutive days.
Emilio G.
October 18, 2022 at 1:09 am
Great idea but corporate and business mindset is more money, more profits. The people at the top already get more time off than their employees so they don’t care. Wages are kept low so that employees can’t acquire any leverage or power through savings. The powerful don’t even want to raise the minimum wage! So 4 day workweek? Ha. Nice dream.
Juliz
October 18, 2022 at 6:43 am
That’s why she said you need help from the government. Companies seem to have waaaayy too much power in the US.
Richard Childs
October 18, 2022 at 1:31 am
*laughs in truck driver*
Mister_Whiskers
October 18, 2022 at 1:35 am
Our Experience Actually Reflects, The Secret Sauce Is Pharmacueticals, A VdownV Payment On Making The Rich Richer, and Yes We Will Need A Pain Relief Station Conviently Available, Plus Cloaked Cocain and Methamphetamine as Medicine. The Research Shows 99% of People have evolved to contribute, Why Not Exploit That 12 to 16 hours a day 4 days a Week! Instead of finding a way to be self employed or working within a worker cooperative.
TheJarhead133
October 18, 2022 at 2:02 am
Yeah I’d rather not be at work 11 hours a day
Stormrunner002
October 18, 2022 at 2:28 am
You have to fully explain it to people though. My Dad suggested the 4-day work week back in the mid 70’s. I heard him and decided to take Fridays off from grade 5. Looking back I don’t think it was that productive because I had to hide from everyone so I really couldn’t get anything done. My fort still didn’t get built any faster. Maybe if it was legal.
Brett
October 18, 2022 at 3:03 am
NO GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT!!! The market will determine the best course of action.
妖孽哪裡走
October 18, 2022 at 3:53 am
I just hope Taiwan can run half day off on Wednesday first
Xuncu
October 18, 2022 at 6:58 am
At the very least, I have been thinking if I had 4 10-hour days with a full hour lunch, instead of 5 8-hours with a half-hour lunch. That’s three days not commuting, not having to get up early and get a deeper sleep. I’m a gamer, so I do prefer to grind once I’m sitting, then just relax _uninterrupted,_ rather than force all my errands in less time than even the fucking Moon in _Majora’s Mask_ does.
Adi Green
October 18, 2022 at 7:05 am
About time…. keep stealing my ideas….. But what ever.
Zamoti
October 18, 2022 at 8:20 am
I used to work 12 hour shifts working 4 shifts one week then two the next it, was good money and a lot of free time which felt great, but due to production circumstances they had to change the shift pattern to a 4 day work week working 9 hours a day instead. We were all intially fuming when they put us on it, but then like about 3 months later we realised how good it is, no more long long days or night shifts working from 7pm -7am and that 4 day work week come with a rotating day off in the week. It’s amazing, they’re begging people to go back to 12 hour shifts (Voluntary shift) but we all refuse.
adriankal
October 18, 2022 at 8:53 am
I do 5h everyday, sometimes I take 1 or 2 days off and I’m happy. I don’t feel like I’m working at all, because I do other things for the majority of every day. Still i do 30 to 35 productive hours a week.
Bike Crew
October 18, 2022 at 8:59 am
Maybe 1 day week is the solution.
Jonathan Swann
October 18, 2022 at 12:27 pm
Obviously, this is going to lead to people getting paid less, after all, if you’re not working as long then you don’t need as much pay. Additionally, this clearly does not apply to retail sales especially if your company has competitors in the area.
Franky Sanjaya G
October 18, 2022 at 1:04 pm
better for u if make the more large for the subtittle
ineednewmarkers
October 18, 2022 at 2:12 pm
Anyone wondering about the algos? Check your local weekly newspaper. We are all being programmed with the same thing.
Mauricio Vera
October 18, 2022 at 4:02 pm
On a week with how many days?
Mig N
October 18, 2022 at 7:26 pm
u gotta raise the pay for lost hours for that to work though.
Jorge Gonsalez
October 19, 2022 at 12:25 am
Yes! Let’s call it the dad day. Lol. September through Nov I vote for a 4 day weekend
Elliot O'Dell
October 19, 2022 at 6:44 am
*me (who works a 6 day week) watching*
Wow yeah that sounds great
Elliot O'Dell
October 20, 2022 at 4:02 pm
@Sky Gravity I’m not reading all that; but, in answer to the first line, I work for money, gratification, and to learn skills which will give me more freedom and flexibility in the future. I’m a tradesman so I’m already self employed and choose when/ where I work so I’m assuming your thesis doesn’t rlly apply to me, then again I’m sure you’ve just been copying and pasting the same text to all the comments so my individual response probably isn’t important to you.
James Storey
October 19, 2022 at 10:20 am
Depends on the job.
Mark S
October 19, 2022 at 7:59 pm
You workin 4-10 hr days? Or 4 8hr days? We steppin down to 32 hr work week as the standard?
M.
October 20, 2022 at 2:48 am
Thankyou Mrs. Marx
Bishoy Hanna
October 20, 2022 at 10:32 am
What about school? Kids learn for 4 days only? Longer hours per day?
Eliza M
October 20, 2022 at 12:00 pm
“Everyone deserves a right to free time” YESSSSSS, this is why I’m going from full time teaching to casual by choice next year – shorter hours, better pay, more time for myself and less stress ✨
Cheerful Heartless
October 20, 2022 at 7:12 pm
The research doesn’t show that this would increase company profit so why would any CEO care
Borderlands Page
October 21, 2022 at 11:12 am
ive been saying this about school for like 8 years this is nothing new lmao
Иван Ардашев
October 21, 2022 at 3:57 pm
“We’re gonna make 4-day week”
“Woow, that’s great!”
“But there’s a chance you’re not in that category and you will still work the same week”
“Well, that’s sad, but I like my chances”
“And you’re gonna pay for everyone’s weekends by paying more taxes, even if you won’t get 4-day work week”
“Whaat?”