In my country there were talks about enacting 4 day work weeks. Sounds cool, employers were okay with it... with one condition - if people start working 10 hour shifts. So yeah, we're probably not going to have 4 day work weeks anytime soon... or we're gonna eventually have 2 day work weeks with 40 hour shifts ๐.
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Yeah that is the neoliberal spin on the 4 day work week, the same hours but shifted to give a day off. You sadly see a lot of people fight for this instead of for a real 4 day work with less hours but same wage.
I mean, joke's still on them.
Chaining me to an office desk for an extra two hours won't make me any more productive.
My thoughts too - people who thought that up should be really detached from reality to expect people to be productive after 8th hour.
It's been this way for a long time in some places. I'm in the U.S, long history of factory work, every single one pushed the "4 DAY WORK WEEK IS GREAT!" Every single one was a standard 10(normally actually 12 including daily O.T).
honestly everything but the lunch break feels detached from reality as it is, there should at the very least be a 10 minute break every hour
Problem is staffing. Sure you can be 4 days on, but you'll have to find coverage for that 5th day and some places can't run 4 days a week. Like hospitals, police force, firefighters, etc.
So great yes, let's have 4 day work weeks, but we need humans trained in these services before.
I worked in a hospital that didn't give paid sick leave for lower level employees until they'd been there for a year.
A hospital.
A sick person collection facility.
And, of course, because they have a profit motive, they can't even offer employees discounts on care or whatever because they have a conflict of interest in providing employee care by being for profit.
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