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Working a 30 hour workweek constitutes "a recipe for working more hours and severely curtailing being able to do activities with other people"?
by aetherson 4y ago
Working a 30 hour workweek constitutes "a recipe for working more hours and severely curtailing being able to do activities with other people"?
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- ghaff 4y agoYes. Because people end up working extra hours on the days they're working, especially if they have a commute, and they just have the overhead of getting settled in the now 6-day workday. Furthermore, weekends are the time a lot of people get together for activities.
- vineyardmike 4y ago> in the now 6-day workday I think its 6 hours for 5 days a day not 5 hours for 6 days a week. I agree with your point that when people do work on a day its easy coerces them work longer hours that day.
- ScoobleDoodle 4y agoI read it as 5 workdays for 6 hours each. I think this is what they meant. It appears you read it as 6 workdays for 5 hours each.
- ghaff 4y agoI think you are correct. I was thrown off by the one less weekend day but I think that was relative to a 4-day work week--not the status quo. I'd still rather than the 4-day week and/or just more vacation days in general.
- danaris 4y agoThat contradicts f1yght's note that "there's 1 day less to the weekend". It's possible they're misunderstanding how 5x6 is intended to work, but they are the ones who introduced it to the thread.
- f1yght 4y agoMy comment was relative to the 3 day weekend of the 4 day workweek
- aetherson 4y agoI think they were contrasting the number of days in the weekend to the other possible reduced hours proposal: 4 days, 8 hours (so 3 day weekends), and suggesting 5 days, 6 hours (2 day weekends, one less than the alternative).