Last Topic: 11:51:24pm, 07/07/2022
Last Post: 9:49:16am, 09/23/2022
The four-day work week is a scam. At least in the way that they implement it in the US.
You still have to work the same number of hours, but you just get longer days. Sure you get one extra day off, but usually you need that whole extra day to recover from working 10-12+ hour days the entire week.
And so it basically goes like this: After factoring in commute time, potential overtime, time for things like sleep, eating, and even the basic level of self-care, you don't have time to do anything outside of work on your work days. So there's no life outside of work for 4 days of the week, then you spend a whole day of recovering from that, and then the normal weekend. It's a worse life than the 5-day work week, because at least in that instance, you have a little bit of time before and after work each day.
I've had multiple friends/ loved ones who have had their companies go to a 4-day work week or the option to do it. All of them either switched back or regretted the decision of switching to it for the above mentioned reasons.
The way 4-day work we should work, is everybody works 4 days but the days are not any longer. Due to increased worker productivity, everybody gets paid the same. Again, if worker wages kept up with productivity, and wealth wasn't hoarded by the top 1%, we could all be working 4 days per week or less and getting paid more than we are currently making.
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