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I think we need to start differentiating between a "4-day, 40-hour workweek" and a "32-hour workweek". I've been calling the former "four tens" - i.e. four 10-h

I think we need to start differentiating between a "4-day, 40-hour workweek" and a "32-hour workweek". I've been calling the former "four tens" - i.e. four 10-hour days. While four-tens is definitely preferable to the traditional five-eights, it seems like a shitty compromise. The whole point of the 4 day workweek is to make strides towards a saner, more balanced lifestyle. Packing more work into fewer days doesn't move us in the right direction.

nwiswell 4y ago
For hourly workers, you're right. For salaried knowledge workers (probably most of us here), I think this would be a big deal. That's because a typical day usually lasts until one of two conditions are met: 1) All of the organizational needs are met 2) I've got no more gas in the tank There's no question that days on average would be longer as condition #1 would become less frequent and condition #2 more frequent, but I'm very confident that on the whole it would end up being fewer hours worked, because I'm already hitting condition #2 on a regular basis. Not to mention that having three days off would do a lot to fight burnout.