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> About 95 percent of the respondents said they want to work a shorter week—which to me means employees think they can complete their tasks in four days rather

> About 95 percent of the respondents said they want to work a shorter week—which to me means employees think they can complete their tasks in four days rather than five. The poll didn’t ask if respondents thought they could finish their tasks in four days rather than five. It only asked if they were interested in a four-day workweek. The exact question is in the linked poll: > Would you like to work a four-day workweek? There were fewer than 600 responses and most of them said yes. Obviously people are going to respond “Yes” if you ask them if they want to work fewer days.

toomuchtodo 4y ago
I don't understand what's wrong with this. The world has gotten so much more productive over decades, while most of the gains go to the top 0.1-1% [1] [2]. People work to live, they do not live to work (except the minority of people who enjoy their jobs, it's their identity, whatever). Anyway, I don't think it matters in the long run. Labor supply shortages will continue due to structural demographics, and younger folks don't drink the Protestant work ethic koolaid. 4 day week trials are proving very successful [3] [4] [5]. Like all progress, it just takes time for younger folks to age into voting and labor force participation and older folks to die out. [1] https://www.epi.org/publication/swa-wages-2019/?chartshare=183494-183498#Figure-A https://www.epi.org/publication/swa-wages-2019/?chartshare=1... [2] 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-... [3] https://www.google.com/search?q=4+day+week+success https://www.google.com/search?q=4+day+week+success [4] https://4dayweek.io/countries https://4dayweek.io/countries [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-day_workweek https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-day_workweek

toomuchtodo 4y ago

I don't understand what's wrong with this. The world has gotten so much more productive over decades, while most of the gains go to the top 0.1-1% [1] [2]. People work to live, they do not live to work (except the minority of people who enjoy their jobs, it's their identity, whatever). Anyway, I don't think it matters in the long run. Labor supply shortages will continue due to structural demographics, and younger folks don't drink the Protestant work ethic koolaid. 4 day week trials are proving very successful [3] [4] [5]. Like all progress, it just takes time for younger folks to age into voting and labor force participation and older folks to die out. [1] https://www.epi.org/publication/swa-wages-2019/?chartshare=183494-183498#Figure-A https://www.epi.org/publication/swa-wages-2019/?chartshare=1... [2] 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-... [3] https://www.google.com/search?q=4+day+week+success https://www.google.com/search?q=4+day+week+success [4] https://4dayweek.io/countries https://4dayweek.io/countries [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-day_workweek https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-day_workweek