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I've been wanting to work 4 day weeks since I got my first desk job. I don't understand why a 4 day workweek is not more popular. I also don't understand why mo

I've been wanting to work 4 day weeks since I got my first desk job. I don't understand why a 4 day workweek is not more popular. I also don't understand why more professionals don't work a 4 day block during the weekend. How much more business can you get when your clients have time off on the weekend to visit you for taxes, lawyering, medical checkups, dentistry, or banking or more important for the DMV or court? Why do they insist I take off a work day or speed through congested traffic to make it to their office by 5? Why does everyone love to wait 5 days just so they can cram together at the mall or in the same restaurant? Why go through the congested highways because EVERYONE is working at the same time? Why? Why why why why? Join in on my revolution my brothers.

Xichekolas 19y ago
The problem is that most places want you to work four 10 hour days instead of five 8 hour ones. Suddenly the deal isn't so attractive. I worked four 10's for about a year, and I can say that you just get stir crazy by the end of the day, and you don't get any more/less done than an 8 hour day. If a four day week meant 32 hours, then I could see the benefit, but to a company, that just says "20% less work will be done." If you try to argue that the same work will be done, they will ask why you are goofing off 20% of the time. As for staggering schedules, I'm with you. It's retarded that we all work at the same time. I chose my dentist specifically because he was open on weekends (he takes tuesdays and wednesdays off).
- misterbwong 19y ago
  Our company works on a half-day Friday system. We work for 8.75 hrs M-Th and 5 hrs on Fri. It seems to work well and the work days are short enough to prevent burnout.
- alaskamiller 19y ago
  Do you measure your work in terms of time or productivity? In a field where projects are deadlined based, should speed, efficiency, and productivity be rewarded? Do I really need to be in front of a computer for all my time as long as the task is accomplished? Companies are still hiring based on standardized patterns established eons ago. I had thought all that rah-rah of the dot-com boom would have taught us about the information revolution and how information workers are different.
  - gcheong 19y ago
    Whoa there, surely you're not suggesting something like a "Results Oriented Workplace", only someplace truly on the cutting edge, like say a big retail chain would try something that radical ;^): http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Careers/story?id=1180149&page=1 http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Careers/story?id=1180149&page=... I wonder how the experiment is going...
michaelneale 19y ago
Its called society. we tend to like to do things together. Economists call it Social Capital - and it has very real value. Reducing the common time slots reduces the chance for social capital to be built up.

Xichekolas 19y ago

The problem is that most places want you to work four 10 hour days instead of five 8 hour ones. Suddenly the deal isn't so attractive. I worked four 10's for about a year, and I can say that you just get stir crazy by the end of the day, and you don't get any more/less done than an 8 hour day. If a four day week meant 32 hours, then I could see the benefit, but to a company, that just says "20% less work will be done." If you try to argue that the same work will be done, they will ask why you are goofing off 20% of the time. As for staggering schedules, I'm with you. It's retarded that we all work at the same time. I chose my dentist specifically because he was open on weekends (he takes tuesdays and wednesdays off).

misterbwong 19y ago
Our company works on a half-day Friday system. We work for 8.75 hrs M-Th and 5 hrs on Fri. It seems to work well and the work days are short enough to prevent burnout.
alaskamiller 19y ago
Do you measure your work in terms of time or productivity? In a field where projects are deadlined based, should speed, efficiency, and productivity be rewarded? Do I really need to be in front of a computer for all my time as long as the task is accomplished? Companies are still hiring based on standardized patterns established eons ago. I had thought all that rah-rah of the dot-com boom would have taught us about the information revolution and how information workers are different.
- gcheong 19y ago
  Whoa there, surely you're not suggesting something like a "Results Oriented Workplace", only someplace truly on the cutting edge, like say a big retail chain would try something that radical ;^): http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Careers/story?id=1180149&page=1 http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Careers/story?id=1180149&page=... I wonder how the experiment is going...

michaelneale 19y ago

Its called society. we tend to like to do things together. Economists call it Social Capital - and it has very real value. Reducing the common time slots reduces the chance for social capital to be built up.