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Everybody (in industrialized nations) should have 3 day work week.

• Broken_Hippo 10y ago
  I would honestly like to agree, but I don't think 3 days works unless you keep the 8 hour days. 10 hours is a lot of time out of one day. Once you sleep, commute, make meals, shower, and other such things, there is very little time. In addition, folks start to really slow down near the end of the day, especially on the 3rd day. I believe it to be much better to work 4 days at 7.5 hours a day to reach the 30 hours. This gives some continuity in a workweek and much better productive time. I actually support five 6-hour days even more. They are trying this in Sweden. With nurses, they find stress levels go down, productivity goes up, more self-reported happiness, and decreased absenteeism.
  • coldcode 10y ago
    3 days isn't enough time for all the meetings. But 5 days of 6 hrs might work. 28 hours of meetings and 2 hours of coding.
    • eHunterBudd 10y ago
      I think you hit the nail on the head. 30 productive hours is a 60 hour workweek once you add in all the useless meetings. On a 18 month SAP implementation I was doing 70 hous a week for 18 months including 3AM calls with India 4-5 days a week. Totally fried me. It is interesting though, now that I'm working independently and change my standard rate for meetings, the number of meetings has gone way down.