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I think there's too much focus on the 4 in 4-day work week. I think why a 4-day work week is more appealing is because we'd have more time (3 days) doing what w

I think there's too much focus on the 4 in 4-day work week. I think why a 4-day work week is more appealing is because we'd have more time (3 days) doing what we love to do instead; We want to do things that bring us joy or give us rest. How do we get that at a societal level in our work? When I think about my relationship between time, work, and value add to society, my gut instinct tells me that I want the security of a w-2 job with the freedom of a 1099 worker. I want to be able to easily find the projects I want to work on regardless of who my employer is, and I don't want to be chained to any n-day work week. Some companies doing a 4-day work week still measure themselves against the 5-day/40hr work week, which feels suboptimal and not the point. I'd bet in a world where a 4-day work week was normal, then I'd bet there'd be a similar ask HN to start a 3-day work week advocacy org.

readonthegoapp 5y ago
not sure i understand -- are you saying a 4-day work week effort should really be called something like "more free time work week" effort? if so, i might agree, except that i think using simple to understand language and concepts is really important - especially in modern-day america/world (short attention spans). i imagine, if we had a, or the, just-type world i'd like to see, we'd have enough work for about 1 day of work per week, maybe more, maybe less. i think, if you look at the history of work and, for example, the weekend, the reasoning before a 4-day work week starts to make more sense. that would be part of our efforts -- educating folks on things like, what is the weekend? how did it start? why is it only two days and not three days, or six days? etc.