4/10s is better than 5/8s, but I think the 4 day workweek movement is trying to reduce the hours worked to 32 hours as a matter of principle. The idea behind 5/

4/10s is better than 5/8s, but I think the 4 day workweek movement is trying to reduce the hours worked to 32 hours as a matter of principle. The idea behind 5/8s was 8 hours work, 8 hours leisure, 8 hours sleep. For that lifestyle to work it assumed a wife at home doing a similar amount of work to keep the household running. Now most families have both parents working 40 hours a week. Which means they're working for 8 hours, coming home and doing a bunch of chores, then going to sleep. Leisure activities are often done at the expense of sleep. A 32 hour work week would give people back some of the leisure time they lost.