Only way my company joins this is if someone has created another four days for us to work
The farmers will be delighted to hear that!
It really is a matter of time before the 4 day week becomes a reality.
Doing the Lord’s work
Assume it’ll be public related bodies signging up?
So from Monday to Friday. Which day would you choose to have off? Im sure there’ll be a good few company arguments abiut who gets what days off
I’d be happy enough if they just stopped companies rolling back on work from home, when you conisder you can easily spend 2-3 hours per day commuting to work and back in Dublin, even if you’re not going far, that easily adds up to more than an 8 hour working day per week for many people.
Picking the wrong battle I feel, especially as for certain types of jobs like support or customer service it will simply mean more awkward shift rotation (e.g. we already need to cover roughly every 3rd or 4th weekend), less coverage the days we’re working and more overall stress.
I already work 4 days a week.. 😁..
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2 day shift then 2 night shifts. 🙁..
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They are 12 hour shifts. ☹️
My company in the UK still works a 5 day week but cut from 40 contracted hours to 37.5. Essentially, I work a half hour less each day, and I find that I’m way more productive.
Right wing anger brought us the Holocaust, left wing anger brought us the weekend
Knowing some of the places I’ve worked it’s going to be great fun watching the rows over who gets Mondays off and who gets Thursdays? I worked in one company that introduced parental leave and then discovered that the parents who took it all immediately booked time off in July and August and at Christmas meaning no one else got time off in these popular periods. The moral boosting initiative left a toxic atmosphere in the place for years. I’m not saying a 4 day week can’t be done. Its just it will take a lot of planning and negotiations and a fair amount of compromise on both sides.
They’re talking about doing a nine day fortnight in my place but not sure how that’ll work if they ever do organise it.
They’re on about bringing in a 4 day week in our company, I nearly shit myself with excitement.
Then told we’d still have to do 40 hours just squeeze them into 4 days instead of 5. What’s the point of that. Load of bollocks they can stick it. Work from home full time, single parent with two young kids that I have 5 days a week. How in the name of Christ are you meant to do a 7am – 5:30pm or 8am – 6:30pm day and have any bit of family time.
I implemented 4x 10 hours where I work. Staff do tend to think twice about leaving.
It was funny listening to the “pro 4 day week” advocate on Newstalk , justifying 100% of the pay while simultaneously refusing to accept that the only way this makes sense is if people are deliberately underperforming on the 5 day week.
4 day week only makes sense for outcome based jobs rather than hourly workers.
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Only way my company joins this is if someone has created another four days for us to work
The farmers will be delighted to hear that!
It really is a matter of time before the 4 day week becomes a reality.
Doing the Lord’s work
Assume it’ll be public related bodies signging up?
So from Monday to Friday. Which day would you choose to have off? Im sure there’ll be a good few company arguments abiut who gets what days off
I’d be happy enough if they just stopped companies rolling back on work from home, when you conisder you can easily spend 2-3 hours per day commuting to work and back in Dublin, even if you’re not going far, that easily adds up to more than an 8 hour working day per week for many people.
Picking the wrong battle I feel, especially as for certain types of jobs like support or customer service it will simply mean more awkward shift rotation (e.g. we already need to cover roughly every 3rd or 4th weekend), less coverage the days we’re working and more overall stress.
I already work 4 days a week.. 😁..
.
2 day shift then 2 night shifts. 🙁..
.
They are 12 hour shifts. ☹️
My company in the UK still works a 5 day week but cut from 40 contracted hours to 37.5. Essentially, I work a half hour less each day, and I find that I’m way more productive.
Right wing anger brought us the Holocaust, left wing anger brought us the weekend
Knowing some of the places I’ve worked it’s going to be great fun watching the rows over who gets Mondays off and who gets Thursdays? I worked in one company that introduced parental leave and then discovered that the parents who took it all immediately booked time off in July and August and at Christmas meaning no one else got time off in these popular periods. The moral boosting initiative left a toxic atmosphere in the place for years. I’m not saying a 4 day week can’t be done. Its just it will take a lot of planning and negotiations and a fair amount of compromise on both sides.
They’re talking about doing a nine day fortnight in my place but not sure how that’ll work if they ever do organise it.
They’re on about bringing in a 4 day week in our company, I nearly shit myself with excitement.
Then told we’d still have to do 40 hours just squeeze them into 4 days instead of 5. What’s the point of that. Load of bollocks they can stick it. Work from home full time, single parent with two young kids that I have 5 days a week. How in the name of Christ are you meant to do a 7am – 5:30pm or 8am – 6:30pm day and have any bit of family time.
I implemented 4x 10 hours where I work. Staff do tend to think twice about leaving.
It was funny listening to the “pro 4 day week” advocate on Newstalk , justifying 100% of the pay while simultaneously refusing to accept that the only way this makes sense is if people are deliberately underperforming on the 5 day week.
4 day week only makes sense for outcome based jobs rather than hourly workers.