You’re downvoted. But I had it. It is great to rest 3 days and do 4 days shit diving. Of course, pay was lover accordingly. I gladly would do 32 hours on 4 days instead of standard German 35 hours on 5 days. Paradoxically it is impossible to find 4 days position despite it is being advertised in ads as optional feature. No hiring manager is offering it for real.
The "of course, pay was lower" isn't what the 4DWW movement is fighting for though: it's about having 1 fewer day of work with no increase in hours and no loss of pay.
Productivity has been going up for half a century now with profits going to the top rather than the workers. All workers deserve 1 day less of work.
Us tech workers too: with modern tooling spinning up a new service (a server in production) can take under a day of work while in the past it would be weeks! We do so much more today per day than ever before yet don't usually have the option to work fewer days.
>> The "of course, pay was lower" isn't what the 4DWW movement is fighting for though: it's about having 1 fewer day of work with no increase in hours and no loss of pay.
Then I vote for the 2 days movement. Joke aside, I wasn't aware that you were promoting a political movement. Sure, just working less and getting the same money prevents work related burnout. But that is not really big news and simply not feasible in this highly competitive world.
> Sure, just working less and getting the same money prevents work related burnout. But that is not really big news and simply not feasible in this highly competitive world.
This world is made by people, constructed under rules of people, people are in control of what this "competitive" world is or isn't. It's not a force of nature, it's not the heat death of the Universe.
Changing a social system is extremely hard, probably some of the hardest problems we as humans can face but it doesn't mean I or you should just accept this "competitive world". It's been created by us, it's on us to tear it down.
A four-day workweek pilot was so successful most firms say they won’t go back
Companies are choosing to keep the policy because it was better for the company too. Over 80% of the companies trialing 4DWW in one large sample chose to keep the policy!
That wouldn't have prevented the OPs burnout/depression.
While I agree that the amount of working hours should be limited, balance is for all health related measures crucial. So, I believe reducing the daily hours is more beneficial than reducing the number of days with equivalent longer hours and potentially accumulating stress and tiredness.
I agree but it’s not about us but about the owners of capital and shareholder driven quarterly capitalism. The economic system would need a huge adjustment to entertain a 4 day work week. Some of that adjustment would be logistical and some cultural but both are needed. A lot of us fight to keep our 5-day work week from becoming a 6 to 7 day work week so some shareholder can make a fast profit and move onto something else.
You're right there would be an adjustment; but in my estimate, much of it would likely be beneficial too: e.g. a Yoga business has more customers because people have more free time now.
