It's time for a 4 day work week

[BirdinHand]

Just to be clear, you're saying emergency workers already work 40+ hours a week?

Obviously.

My point is cutting them to 32 hour weeks is going to lower their productivity.

I’m saying they already work 3-4 day work weeks instead of 5.

 

[vegas giants]

I'm sure many people would agree with you. They are happy to have others who provide basic services to society to work long hours and more days per year so that they can work fewer hours for the same pay.

It's a good system for some. Not for everybody though.

Nobody is forced to work as a cop or fireman

 

[Metric Mouse]

Good. Let's do it for some people

Anyone who wants that work schedule can apply for those jobs

Let's find a way for everyone to do it! Anyone who wants the tax break could become an essential worker. It'd be a win, win win!

 

[BirdinHand]

It always amazes me to see so many Americans argue to keep americans working longer hours and in worse conditions just because wanting more time at home is somehow a form of socialism.
There have been loads of studies that prove people are more productive when given decent holiday time and less hours and somehow France manages to survive even with its restrictive hours culture. Just doing lots of hours at work is not a good thing as all you'll do burn out and miss your life doing a job for a company that doesn't give a shit about you anyway.
This culture that the US has of work over everything alse is counter productive and just ends in mass depression.

And there was a pushback from some when a 5 day work week became the norm instead of 6, I’m sure.

 

[vegas giants]

Let's find a way for everyone to do it! Anyone who wants the tax break could become an essential worker. It'd be a win, win win!

And intern doctors will no longer work 70 hour weeks?

How about soldiers? Can they work 4 days a week?

 

[BirdinHand]

And intern doctors will no longer work 70 hour weeks?

How about soldiers? Can they work 4 days a week?

Unless they are in a combat zone, why can’t they?

You realize that unless they are in a combat zone, members of the military have days off, vacation days, holidays, etc, right?

 

[vegas giants]

Unless they are in a combat zone, why can’t they?

You realize that unless they are in a combat zone, members of the military have days off, vacation days, holidays, etc, right?

Well I served so I'm more aware than you


I never had a 4 day workweek in ten years active duty

 

[Jredbaron96]

The company I work for switched to a four day work week last year.

I stuck to 40 hours because I'm hourly, so I work 4-10s, but before this in the Army I regularly worked 12 hour shifts so 4-10s isn't a big deal.

I recommend it. Having a three day weekend every week is fantastic.

 

[BirdinHand]

Well I served so I'm more aware than you


I never had a 4 day workweek in ten years active duty

But why couldn’t you?

There’s no reason you couldn’t - unless being in a combat zone.

 

[Metric Mouse]

I’m saying they already work 3-4 day work weeks instead of 5.

Yes, but that's 36-48 hour weeks...

Dropping them to 32 hours per week will cause a loss of productivity.

 

[vegas giants]

But why couldn’t you?

There’s no reason you couldn’t - unless being in a combat zone.

Because you are preparing for war

You do that by preparing for long days in the field with sleepless nights

 

[Metric Mouse]

And intern doctors will no longer work 70 hour weeks?

How about soldiers? Can they work 4 days a week?

Sounds good to me. I'd vote for it. Why not? Soldiers and doctors have incredibly important, high stress jobs. They should be at the top of the list to work 32 hours a week.

 

[vegas giants]

Sounds good to me. I'd vote for it. Why not? Soldiers and doctors have incredibly important, high stress jobs. They should be at the top of the list to work 32 hours a week.

Ridiculous. It would add years to doctor training and clearly you never spent a day in the military

 

[Peter]

Yes, but that's 36-48 hour weeks...

Dropping them to 32 hours per week will cause a loss of productivity.

If that was the case why are companies that get involved in the test run keeping the new 4 day week system and saying it has no negative effects on them and that people still get the work done?

 

[Metric Mouse]

Because you are preparing for war

You do that by preparing for long days in the field with sleepless nights

No wonder the United States Army is having such low recruitment rates.

 

[vegas giants]

No wonder the United States Army is having such low recruitment rates.

And yet....we still don't need a draft even during war

 

[Metric Mouse]

If that was the case why are companies that get involved in the test run keeping the new 4 day week system and saying it has no negative effects on them and that people still get the work done?

Because they are not running "essential" emergency services...

 

[Metric Mouse]

And yet....we still don't need a draft even during war

Nope, why would we?

 

[vegas giants]

Nope, why would we?

Because we recruit enough people


Duh

 

[Peter]

No wonder the United States Army is having such low recruitment rates.

Yep, the armed forces don't need to constantly prepare for WW3 by making everyone do special forces training all the time.
Not all training is at 110% tempo and if it was people just wouldn't stay.

 

[vegas giants]

Yep, the armed forces don't need to constantly prepare for WW3 by making everyone do special forces training all the time.
Not all training is at 110% tempo and if it was people just wouldn't stay.

But it is sometimes. On a regular basis

 

[americanwoman]

Lazy folks on the left want to work at home in their pajamas with fluffy in their lap 4 days a week and get paid more an hour for their "labor". Sure they do. Do you morons propose the same for DR's. nurses, dentist, EMT's, police and fire fighters? How about school, 4 days a week goes with the left and he teacher unions closing our schools for roughly 2 years so our kids can get dumb and dumber as The covid BS achieved. How about those folks that keep our power companies and water treatment plants operating. Military? How about a 4 day a week war? Our government offices need to work 4 days so the elderly and dependent have less time to get to them for help. Oh, but lets increase the number of days to mail in a vote, show up to vote, to get financial aid. This smells like more left wing entitlement BS that they don't earn but think they deserve.

Lazy? I am so much more productive working at home in my pajamas with a cat in my lap than having to wake up an hour earlier than I do, figure out some "business causal" outfit to wear that nobody outside the company will even see, deal with the weather, the road rage idiots, and then park my butt in a cubicle as the overhead lighting gives me migraines.

 

[Peter]

But it is sometimes. On a regular basis

It can't be sometimes and on a regular basis.
I'm not trying to argue but those statements contradict each other.
It would be like asking my work for a free Starbucks sometimes but on a regular basis.
It would confuse the **** out of them.

 

[vegas giants]

It can't be sometimes and on a regular basis.
I'm not trying to argue but those statements contradict each other.
It would be like asking my work for a free Starbucks sometimes but on a regular basis.
It would confuse the **** out of them.

No. It would be like saying you have a 32 hour week at Starbucks....but for the next 2 weeks you will be working 60 hours...and that happens on a regular basis

 

[Metric Mouse]

Because we recruit enough people.

Duh

Not according to the United States Army Secretary Christine Wormuth.

But you probably know more than her.