You know, if it’s literally 8 guys, what are the chances that they’re not all sat in a room and one goes “hey, there’s a lot of evidence that switching to a four day workweek would be better in every way and would not affect our productivity or profits in any way. Do you think we should all adopt it in all our companies and change the world and people’s lives for the better?” and they all take a moment and look at each other and as they all burst out laughing one says “fuck those losers, let them suffer” and they all high five and go back to drinking champagne out of panda skulls or whatever it is they do.
A 4-day workweek would be lovely if monthly salaries stayed the same (= hourly wages went up). Then I could work three days a week and get 75% of a full-time salary instead of just 60%, which would be kind of like a 25% raise. That’d leave me with so much more time to be silly :3
I work 36 hours so 4 or 5 days every other week. I love my biweekly free Monday we get so silly with it :3 I’d take 4 days a week every week for the same money tho hehe
There are several ways it’s presented. But anything other than four 8-hour days with the same salary is just trying to pander to the rich people to make it more appealing to them. I personally would feel pretty terrible having to work 10 hours a day, and it would negate the positives of having an extra day off. It’d work for some people but it wouldn’t be a real win for the working class as it would be the same number of working hours even though productivity has skyrocketed in the previous decades
Most of their “work” consists of meetings that they don’t even have to attend and where everyone has to do what they say because they’re the boss. That and multi hour “business lunches”.
Yes, they operate 24/7. If the work week is shortened, companies wont operate less hours, they’d just spend more money on staffing. They’d either need to hire more people to cover 24/7 operations, or pay existing staff overtime to work their current schedules. Companies don’t want to spend more money on staffing which is why they don’t want reduced work hours even though studies show it’s beneficial for people’s lives.
I’m a bit confused by your comment. By workday, do you mean individual for employees, or do you mean “business days”, like when banking and financial transactions are historically run?
4 day work week would be for individual (full time, salaried) employees, to have a 4 day/32 hour workweek instead of a 5 day/40 hour workweek (at the same compensation). Companies like Amazon running 7 days a week just means the business doesn’t close down over weekends or such, but doesn’t generally mean a given employee is working 7 days straight. (Though, it absolutely can result in employees working 7 days straight, depending on pay period, how weeks are broken down for scheduling and payroll, and whether overtime is allowed and/or encouraged.)
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