The Dark Truth of 4 Day Work Week

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[howtowanderlust]

This assumes people work an even amount or produce evenly throughout the work week. I know for my job Friday’s are a joke and no one does anything past noon.

[SwordFighterPKN]

The 4 day work weeks are generally 10 hour days. Patrick need to loose this factory work day mentally. Plus not everyone wants to work like a dog like entrepreneurs do. Most people work to live not live to work

[anthonygiambruno]

It’s 4 10 hour days so you’re getting the same exact amount of hours

[sevensages]

This is coming from a guy who ran a MLM insurance Co where nearly 95% of the licensed agents made less than minimum wage!

-source are his own 2019 financial filings.

[hasht]

They're going to make that $5 burger a $6 one regardless. I like this guy but these scenarios are B.S. And that burger now is $7 anyway.

[ScorpionPC]

False premise being lost labor but the math sounds really good in his argument if you forget that one important detail.

[zahubshahid]

"That $5 burger is going to be $6"

Well Pat... we dont have 4 day work weeks and look what happened. Now that burger is $8...

[brillopad]

Nearly all 4-day work weeks are ten hours a day, which (do the math, genius) comes out to - surprise - 40-hours!

[libertybell]

That's bull! They aren't losing the labor or the productivity if a company goes to a 4 day, 40 hour work week. I worked 4 10s and got MORE done than I do in 5 8 hr days. His example assumes the 4 day week ISNT also 40 hrs, if the hrs stay the same, then the company loses nothing.

[martinpena]

I think the point of 4 Days is to work 10 hour days instead of 8.

[erockdlmon]

Pat doesnt mention that productivity increases when there is a 4 day work week

[richardkurr]

This precludes all companies unreasonable expectations of unlimited and consistent growth to consider their business profitable by today’s standards. If a company is willing to make a reasonable profit regardless of growth month over month then the need to hike prices goes away.

[thisfloridagirl]

Finally I found something I totally disagree with you on

[charniecearielle]

The comments are like “just bring slavery back” 😆

[glennjohn]

Technically speaking I believe the trade-off is 4 days of ten hours instead of 5 days of eight... which I'm generally ambivalent about but I'm also resistant to unnecessary changes to the norm. Especially in America 🙏❤🇺🇲

[codemcloud]

No Patrick. That employers employees have 20% more free time to rest, to spend with family, to enjoy life, to grow and they will appreciate that optional freedom. Forcing employees to spend 33% 1/3 of their day to work which let's be honest with travel and time preparing to go to and from work is usually closer to 10 hours a day is just wrong and not accounting for long term health and well being. If you just make it optional for 4 day work weeks and start out with this you can find the extra labor if your H.R. department is worth its weight.

[IvanGonzalez-kflp]

I think one, like everyone’s pointing out in the comments, the hours would just be redistributed around 4 days. Secondly, don’t most studies shows that firms and businesses become MORE productive when implementing a 4 day workweek ?

[okaydude]

So don’t do it at your companies, lol

[codemcloud]

I was goaded into working for a manufacturing company with the 4 10 hour work week and the bastards basically did everything they could to guilt trip and threaten you to come in the 5th day for over time so instead of a 3 day weekend I was stuck with 50 hour work weeks and in the 5 months I worked there I maybe had 2 Fridays off and that was because I called in or just didn't show up but they really did everything they could to make you feel like you were a piece of shit if you didn't work 50 hours.

[ElMarko]

Not necessarily true, I work a 4 day week but we work 4 ten hour days, and then optional overtime on Friday. So a normal week for me would be 46 hours, but if I don’t want to work Friday I at least get my 40. No loss in productivity because we get everything done that we need to get done