In Soviet Russia there were perhaps additional goals for this idea (religion, less integrated familial units, divide and conquer). But I wonder if a more enlig

In Soviet Russia there were perhaps additional goals for this idea (religion, less integrated familial units, divide and conquer). But I wonder if a more enlightened society that doesn't have those additional goals could make this work. Perhaps some of the obvious problems can be addressed, or at least ameliorated: - Shifts could be sharded across families rather than individuals. Individuals seems needlessly granular and disruptive. - The number of shards could be reduced. With 5 shards, 4/5 potential friends don't share your weekend. But maybe we could have only 2 or 3 shards. - A single day (e.g. Sunday) could remain a society-wide day of rest. I think a proposal that included some of the above characteristics along with a shortening of the standard work week (to 35 or 32 hours, perhaps) might be interesting. I suppose we already have a bottom-up version of this with shift work, but probably there is some small benefit to aligning shifts in a top-down way (i.e. it reduces shards which should increase happiness).