This long weekend made me realize a 4 day work week wouldn’t be too bad and I’d be ready to work longer hours during those 4 days (already doing plenty of overtime anyways).
Would you be **for** or **against** the implementation of the 4 day work week scheme with longer working hours to compensate for the extra non-working day?
**Note 1**: You have the same pay, benefits and workload, but you just work longer hours during those 4 days to compensate for the extra non-working day.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4\_Days,\_40\_Hours](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4_Days,_40_Hours)
**Note 2**: This is obviously for people who are full-time. Obviously not applicable to those who are part-time – no one is asking to increase work days.
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Absolutely, would love to do it even if i was doing twelve hour shifts,theres only one go on this merry go round and i dont want to waste it all doing meaningless shite
I think it would depend on the industry obviously. But for salary workers, I think it makes sense and would be good for everyone. The defecit on time makes room more employment also.
Yes final answer.
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I started doing the 4day work week about 4months ago. Its been great and I feel refreshed every Monday morning and ready to work, previously Friday was a chore as I was exhausted after the week and did little work anyway (I had done 40hrs by Thurs night) . I wish everyone had the opportunity.
Give us more bank holidays at a minimum. It’s 12 five day weeks now until our next. That’s total bullshit.
I’d be for a 4 day work week only working 8 hours a day.
99% of jobs don’t need you working 40 hours a week.
Numerous times I’ve gotten all the work I needed to do done within half that and just chilled out for the rest of the week.
💯 for this.
research suggests you don’t have to increase hours – your productivity over those four hours increases and makes up for the usually paltry output of friday evenings anyway. It’s just Monday-Thursday, 9-530 and it makes you happier, healthier and often boosts the economy (because people are stupid fucking productive bees and often user their spare time to build, make, draw or perform cool shit and sell it so). yes. its a good idea.
Yes 100%.
I would even go further and say you don’t need to work 5 days within 4 days, it’s a 4 day week of 9-5 full stop. That’s what a lot of the current studies are focusing on. Same pay as a 5 day week obviously.
At our place we are nearly there, no meetings on a Friday and finish at 12:30 with very strict top down communication that people stop at that time. Sure, some people work a few hours over sometimes but for the most part, it’s a hard 12:30 finish.
I’m pretty sure we will move to a 4 day week in the next few years. Mental health and work life balance are huge focus points. Plus it’s a nice little benefit to attract / retain staff.
Within my own team, we do the bulk of our work Monday-Thursday and Friday is a debrief / close out and very relaxed. It means we are very productive, largely happy and don’t burn out as easy.
WFH was the go-to perk just before COVID, and now it’s nearly standard in some shape or form, the next will be a 4 day week.
That’s not what the essence of the idea is though.
The idea behind a 4 day working week is that you just work one day less but your productivity on the 4 days you do work increases to offset the day off.
Why you’re describing is just a varied version of flexi time and it would be stupid for employers to facilitate it because productivity in the 10th/11th hour of work during your 4 day week is going to be way down.
Why you really should be pushing your company to do is to implement an actual 4 day working week (where half the employees work Mon-Thurs and half work Tues-Fri) as this is the real definition of what is meant when it’s discussed – not cramming 5 days work into 4 exhausting days.
Fuck all gets done in my place on a Friday regardless.
Have the weekend start at 6pm on a Thursday, that’s the way.
Definitely a 4 day week but no more than 8 hours. I hate that I’m living to work and not working to live. I could 100% get all of my work done in 4 days rather than 5.
Abso fuckin lutely
The 4 days work week with longer hours as you’re talking about is already a thing in some companies (see eBay/PayPal) with 10 hours workdays. It’s a personal preference since you’re still doing the same amount of hours.
The [4 days work week](https://fourdayweek.ie/) that’s being discussed these days is very different from that in the sense that it would be a 4 days work week with the current amount of time being worked each day, which is 8, and no scummy unpaid overtime.
Who really goes full belt on a Friday anyway? Must be the least productive workday out of the 5 so it’s already pointless in its existence. 4 day weeks a much better idea.
Yes – because obviously…
No – because it’s Ireland and government and employers will work it so they actually fuck over employees..
The industrial work week in Ireland used to be four and a half days.
I worked four and a half days in factories in the 90s. The half day (usually Friday) was for maintenance and cleaning, no actual production.
The country managed that way for decades, with no detrimental effect on productivity.
This was actual manufacturers, with actual tangible products that could be physically counted. If they can manage four days without a drop in productivity, then any other industry should be able to manage the same.
(The reason we have less industry now is down to cost, not productivity)
A four day week isn’t a new thing. We already know it works. Yeah I’d definitely be in favour of it.
Yeah 4 day work week would be good imo
I do 4 on 4 off so technically 3.5 a week already with 12 hour shifts
Absolutely I would but as others have pointed out a 4 day 8hr/day work week should also be fair.
Our productivity has skyrocketed with technology and the working week sees no benefit.
I probably only have a couple days in me per week. I definitely feel up and down productivity wise. Like one day i get a shit ton done the next nothing. I would be down but in my industry it won’t happen.
Absolutely for it. Done it and I get more done and am happier
Absolutely no fucking way.
The 4 day week thing is one day less work, with the same working day.
Stop watering this down.
A 4-day week is a 32 hour week, **NOT** a 40 hour week.
##32 hour week!
Stop with this 4-day 40-hour week bullshit, for fuck’s sake.
Working in manufacturing for a small business so it would be tough to go out on our own doing so with competition continuing with a 5 day week = competitive advantage; would need to be government mandated. I do however hope we get a government that mandates it.
We don’t necessarily need a socialist loony government but one that at least values its citizens’ happiness over capitalism and GDP figures.
To directly answer the question, yes I would prefer to have 10 hour days and 4 of them a week, having an extra day off each week is gold, living in Ireland with 3 days off each week gives you some potential to travel to many places in Europe, you could fly out thursday evening and back Sunday no problem as much as you want if you have all your other bills etc covered. I worked in Pharma in Ireland and heard there was a Regeneron night shift that was Mon-Wed 13 hours each day and then off the rest of the time. I would actually love that but I dont have kids.
Beats 6 days, 60 hours. Shame I can’t afford it.
I think maybe even 3 day week
I barely do 20 hours of actual work in a week anyway, and especially little on a Friday so if they reduced it down to three it would make fuck all difference to my productivity.
So, yes.
I work 5 days a week but willing to work longer hours go have a 4 day week. Means I get longer bank holiday weekends and I can nip away for a quick getaway haha
I used to do something similar. got Wednesday off.
Absolutely loved it. so much easier to get things done. Less people out and about. Downside? Absolutely nothing only reason we stopped was the owner passed and his son is the worst kind of cunt.