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> What I see from people I know at different companies is that Friday--and especially Friday afternoon--has sort of gotten normalized as a sort of wind down int
by timmg 4y ago
> What I see from people I know at different companies is that Friday--and especially Friday afternoon--has sort of gotten normalized as a sort of wind down into the weekend day.
The question is, if you had a 4-day work-week, would Thursdays then become normalized as the day people wind down?
- nawgz 4y agoCongrats, you have mastered applying the slippery slope fallacy like a true capitalist. I will now offer you an executive position, where you will mostly schmooz and travel, please continue to question the worker's motivations and incentives relentlessly during your time here.
- senko 4y agoThat is not a slippery slope fallacy. It would be a fallacy if gp then concluded that 4-day workweek would end up in 0-day workweek. It is entirely reasonable to expect people might be more lax on the last day of the week, defeating the argument that we might as well have Friday's off because noone's working hard anyway.
- toomuchtodo 4y agoThe crux of it is that we’ve gotten so much more productive in the last four decades and most of the gains (at least in the US) are going to the wealthiest who own the vast majority of securities. Could the 3 day week be next? Maybe! Let’s try the 4 day work day first so labor can get some of those gains by way of work life balance. Otherwise, this power balance shift will occur naturally as the developed world ages and the share of productive workers shrinks year after year (slowly some places, faster others). https://www.statista.com/chart/23410/inequality-in-productivity-and-compensation/ https://www.statista.com/chart/23410/inequality-in-productiv... https://www.statista.com/chart/18458/working-age-population-decline-oecd-countries/ https://www.statista.com/chart/18458/working-age-population-... https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/the-wealthiest-10percent-of-americans-own-a-record-89percent-of-all-us-stocks.html https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/the-wealthiest-10percent-of-...
- nawgz 4y agoIt's a total slippery slope fallacy. There's two claims at play. People work too much --> people slack off at the end of the work week People work less --> people are less burnt out --> less reason to slack off Somehow, this getting rolled up into Thursday is the "new" end of the week --> people will slack off on Thursday ignores the underlying change and incentives entirely!
- _0w8t 4y agoWednesday off from that perspective may be more productive. It is easier to focus on work for 2 days than for 4.
- ghaff 4y agoI don't really think so other than maybe some people would take off early for their 3-day weekend.
- johnchristopher 4y agoN=1 but that's not my case. Now, not everyone on my team has 4-day workweek.