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As someone who's been working four-hour weeks for years, I cannot understate the change in life satisfaction. The workweek becomes much more pleasant and ends b
by StavrosK 6y ago
As someone who's been working four-hour weeks for years, I cannot understate the change in life satisfaction. The workweek becomes much more pleasant and ends before you know it, and the weekend feels like it lasts forever. If you can afford it, I absolutely recommend at least trying it out.
- Udik 6y agoNitpick: you mean overstate. Understating it would be very easy, just say it's terrible :)
- StavrosK 6y agoOops, yep, you're right!
- jfengel 6y agoI assume you mean four-day weeks? Four-hour weeks would indeed make the weekends seem to last forever, but probably not realistic for anybody except self-help-book writers.
- StavrosK 6y agoBah, yes, I do. I have no idea what I was thinking when writing that comment, it's just a trainwreck. TLDR: Shorter week very good.
- jfengel 6y agoIt does sound very good, and it feels "right": If I had three days off after 4 days of work, it would feel like paradise. Any less might make me feel aimless. I'm sure that they felt the same way when the 40 hour work weeks and weekends became standard. I wonder if, in a century, people will be antsy that they're losing more than half their life to work, and a three day work week seems perfect. I keep hoping that by then the robots will have completely changed all of that... but here I am working the same number of hours per week as my great grandfather.
- Viliam1234 6y agoA friend of mine who tried different working schedules described it like this: With five-day workweek, the weekend is not long enough to recover. With four-day workweek, the weekend is enough to fully recover. With three-day workweek, you have enough energy during the weekend to start working on your own project. With two-day workweek, the work no longer makes you tired, it is as if you are on a perpetual vacation.