4 day work week?

[lawgator1]

Hearing more about this idea lately, from left and right. Recently premised on notion that technology makes most folks more efficient and humanity should benefit.

Where do you stand ?

 

[whodeycin85]

Hearing more about this idea lately, from left and right. Recently premised on notion that technology makes most folks more efficient and humanity should benefit.

Where do you stand ?

I have no issue with it as long as people dont expect the same wages as a 5 day work week.

 

[lawgator1]

I have no issue with it as long as people dont expect the same wages as a 5 day work week.

It's a matter of time before they'd catch up, though.

 

[whodeycin85]

It's a matter of time before they'd catch up, though.

I think most are viewing with as an opportunity to work less, make the same amount as before...not realizing the impact of that on cost of goods because less hours is less productivity in theory

 

[McDad]

I am in favor of it. Mainly because it gives the working poor an additional day every week to work their second job.

 

[jvol1]

Depends on the job. I think nurses already work three or four days a week but have 12 hour shifts or something like that.

I'm more interested in what ai and robotics can do. Could humanity adapt to a creator economy or an employment optional economy? That seems to be where things are headed when the employment requirement thats the foundation of capitalism is somewhat eliminated by automated labor.

 

[lawgator1]

Depends on the job. I think nurses already work three or four days a week but have 12 hour shifts or something like that.

I'm more interested in what ai and robotics can do. Could humanity adapt to a creator economy or an employment optional economy? That seems to be where things are headed when the employment requirement thats the foundation of capitalism is somewhat eliminated by automated labor.

That's my thinking and a four day work week is part of that transition, along with work from home.

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

I have no issue with it as long as people dont expect the same wages as a 5 day work week.

I assumed in his question that they would still be working 40 hours...

 

[whodeycin85]

I assumed in his question that they would still be working 40 hours...

It that's the case then I'm all for it..hell I'm all for less hours and same productivity..I think there was a study that at 32 to 35 is equal to a standard 40..production wise..

 

[NorthDallas40]

As long as the hour commitment remains the same who cares how many days a week someone works. If it’s a play to just get a free 25% pay increase then I’d guess it goes absolutely nowhere.

 

[just bob]

Who is "We"? Businesses should do what they want. I work 4-10's and freaking love it.

 

[K-town Vol Fan]

Absolutely

 

[TNVOLNAVY]

Hearing more about this idea lately, from left and right. Recently premised on notion that technology makes most folks more efficient and humanity should benefit.

Where do you stand ?

5 becomes 4, 4 becomes 3, and so on and so forth. Pretty sure most of the Euro leftists are already down to 36 hours.

 

[Orangeburst]

sure systemic racism will be used as justification

 

[Wireless1]

5 becomes 4, 4 becomes 3, and so on and so forth. Pretty sure most of the Euro leftists are already down to 36 hours.

IIR, Europe initially dropped hours so that more people would be employed….doctor unemployment numbers

 

[DinkinFlicka]

5 becomes 4, 4 becomes 3, and so on and so forth. Pretty sure most of the Euro leftists are already down to 36 hours.

Work smart not hard, boomer.

 

[TNVOLNAVY]

IIR, Europe initially dropped hours so that more people would be employed….doctor unemployment numbers

America has become a nation of part time workers, the unemployed, and the unemployable.

 

[K-town Vol Fan]

America has become a nation of part time workers, the unemployed, and the unemployable.

Speak for yourself

 

[PEPPERJAX]

Not sure about this but Hardee’s should open for business less.

 

[DinkinFlicka]

America has become a nation of part time workers, the unemployed, and the unemployable.

^^ greets at Wal-Mart 40 hours a week ^^

 

[InVOLuntary]

If companies want a 4 day work week, have at it. Government should keep their grimy paws out of it.

 

[hog88]

If companies want a 4 day work week, have at it. Government should keep their grimy paws out of it.

/end thread

 

[lawgator1]

5 becomes 4, 4 becomes 3, and so on and so forth. Pretty sure most of the Euro leftists are already down to 36 hours.

Well, is that so bad? If you work 5 days a week now, 8 hours a day, that's 40 hours. So 4 less is the end of the world?

Seems to me that's sort of the definition of a full work week, anyway, when you take out breaks and lunch times. Basically its closer to 32 hours or so each week of actual work.

Now, I do not disagree that it will go lower over time, but it has been that way for awhile really. With technology and now AI, is that to be resisted or welcomed?

 

[lawgator1]

If companies want a 4 day work week, have at it. Government should keep their grimy paws out of it.

Who said anything about the government being involved in this?

I can tell you as an employer that I am routinely asked by younger applicants now about working from home. They got used to it the last few years, it reduces the time and expense of commuting, etc. Seems to me we should not be afraid of such a transition.

 

[hog88]

Who said anything about the government being involved in this?

I can tell you as an employer that I am routinely asked by younger applicants now about working from home. They got used to it the last few years, it reduces the time and expense of commuting, etc. Seems to me we should not be afraid of such a transition.

As an employer you do what fits your business needs. Hard for a service company to work 4 day weeks without increasing staff to cover those 5th and 6th days because those 4 day workers aren't going to understand that the plumber isn't working on Fridays.