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A colleague in a former workplace tried to quit and was persuaded to stay by the offer of a four day week on the same salary (talented guy, difficult and expens
by smcl 4y ago
A colleague in a former workplace tried to quit and was persuaded to stay by the offer of a four day week on the same salary (talented guy, difficult and expensive to replace). From what I could tell the result was that he was highly motivated, continued to be very productive and of course was much happier. I think he took Mondays off, and would use the extra day to go on longer trips at the weekend (often surfing iirc) that he wouldn't have otherwise been able to. I really envied him :)
- throw0101a 4y ago> I think he took Mondays off […] I'm not sure if I'd gone with that given that there are a number of statutory holidays on Monday: if you take Fridays off then there'd be times when you only have three-day weeks. Where I'm at we have Victoria Day, Civic/Simcoe Day, Labour Day, Thanksgiving: * https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/public-holidays.html https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/public-... Throw in Family Day for Ontario. Plenty of floating days as well of course (July 1, December 25).
- toyg 4y agoThat sort of thing is very country-specific - in the UK, for example, all bank holidays (except 25-26 December), are set by law on Monday or Friday. That's not the case in most European countries.
- smcl 4y agoAh yeah but I can't remember the exact details, could be that he stacked an extra day onto his weekend in those cases. Thinking about it though, even if he "lost" a public holiday that's still a really nice amount of free time all things considered :D