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Please don't force me to work less than I want to.

• eesmith 8y ago
  That really depends on your job, doesn't it? There are many jobs (eg, truck driver, airline pilot) where workers are forced to stop work in order to sleep. I believe the goal is that you should not face negative consequences for deciding to work only 4 days per week. I also believe that "force" is only indirect - you can work as much as you want to, so long as your employer pays you overtime. Your extra productivity may justify paying time-and-a-half, yes? Of course, programmers in the US aren't really subject to overtime law in the first place, thanks to computer industry trade groups who pushed for that exemption back in 1991 - https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/28/business/computer-programmers-to-lose-overtime-pay.html https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/28/business/computer-program... .
• danharaj 8y ago
  Nah. I'd prefer a 4 day work week, thanks. Now, if we had the autonomy to both choose how much we work? Sure. But we can't. Gosh I bet there were people making the same argument about working on 7 days a week too.
• InclinedPlane 8y ago
  Such an odd sentiment. Assuming that pay is kept the same, the only rational argument for not having more free time for themselves outside of work would be from people who had a substantial equity stake in wherever they worked. And for most situations where that was the case there would be nothing stopping them working more.