Why hasntvthe world adopted a 4 day working week?

Tom_Cruise

Four 10 hour days = 40 hour week.

This gives an extra day of which could be worked as overtime and still have a weekend of. Also an extra day of for people to shop and spend some cash.

Chucken

Tom_Cruise wrote: »

<p>Four 10 hour days = 40 hour week.</p><p> </p><p>This gives an extra day of which could be worked as overtime and still have a weekend of. Also an extra day of for people to shop and spend some cash.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>

I see

Unregistered.

Three 13 hour 20 minute days = 40 hour week!

dutopia

Tom_Cruise wrote: »

<p>Four 10 hour days = 40 hour week.</p><p> </p><p>This gives an extra day of which could be worked as overtime and still have a weekend of. Also an extra day of for people to shop and spend some cash.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>

When you master the art of HTML and boards formatting I'll come back and read your post.

DjFlin

Because f*ck 10 hour shifts?

Praetorian Saighdiuir

<p>I don't know man<p>

Did you type that with your nose?

namloc1980

Bloody Scientologists.

somefeen

Because we'd get fcuk all done

Guy:Incognito

2 20 hour days ftw.


I like the idea of 4 day weeks though

My name is URL

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

2 20 hour days ftw.


I like the idea of 4 day weeks though

Or just one big motherfcukin' 40 hour shift.. with the next 6 days off for hookers and medical attention.

Unregistered.

My name is URL wrote: »

Or just one big motherfcukin' 40 hour shift.. with the next 6 days off for hookers and medical attention.

Eh...

Voltex

My 1,000th post...only took about 4 years!

What pussy works 40hrs??...My usual week is about 65!!

Maire2009

I used to do it in Dell in Limerick - was great, even the swing shift part. So could finish work at 6pm on a Thursday and not be back until 6pm Monday evening - lovely jubbly.

returnNull

My name is URL wrote: »

Or just one big motherfcukin' 40 hour shift.. with the next 6 days off for hookers and medical attention.

and we can start doing the coke at the start of our shift!

Tom_Cruise

Voltex wrote: »

My 1,000th post...only took about 4 years!

What pussy works 40hrs??...My usual week is about 65!!

What is your job description?

F1ngers

Voltex wrote: »

My 1,000th post...only took about 4 years!

What pussy works 40hrs??...My usual week is about 65!!

You should work four sixteen hour days then.

Max Power1

Tom_Cruise wrote: »

Four 10 hour days = 40 hour week.

This gives an extra day of which could be worked as overtime and still have a weekend of. Also an extra day of for people to shop and spend some cash.

I do this already,
I work monday-thursday 8-6

weemcd

Why the fúck are we even working 40 hours a week? we have no need to, its only done because its the norm

I have long proposed removing Tuesday from the calender, 4 day working week with the weekend as it is now, trust me, no one will miss a Tuesday (eat pancakes whenever you want btw, nobody is stopping you or restricting you to one Tuesday of the year)

IM0

Voltex wrote: »

My 1,000th post...only took about 4 years!

What pussy works 40hrs??...My usual week is about 65!!

1000 more and you will have gained access to the hooker and coke lounge

mickdw

No doubt if someone only works 40 hours, 4 days would be a far better solution than 5 days for alot of people.

Senna

At college I used to work 40 hours from 1pm on a Friday to 9pm on a Sunday.
A 3 day week working 40 hours would be bliss, but with college it was a PITA.

Systemic Risk

Max Power1 wrote: »

I do this already,
I work monday-thursday 8-6

Unless you dont take lunch breaks thats a 36 hour week.

NuckingFacker

Pfft, I work fourty hours a day every day, even Christmas. Bunch of woosies.

Dyr

Because in this country if you did four 10 hour days businesses will reckon that they could probably get you to do five 10 hour days. After all we are where we are and there's a recession etc etc

hatrickpatrick

What I don't understand is why the world operates so early in the morning and in such an almighty rush.

I'm fairly sure the people who enjoy having to go to bed early in order to be up at 6/7AM are in the minority, so why do we in general live like that?

If I ever end up running a company I will endeavour to try and change this paradigm. The reason everyone is so sleep deprived is that it's just not natural for humans to go to bed as early as we need to in order to fit in with this.

Capt'n Midnight

NuckingFacker wrote: »

Pfft, I work fourty hours a day every day, even Christmas. Bunch of woosies.

Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.

DrumSteve

**** it, Ima do one 40 hour day. It can be done.

corktina

what a whole 4 days? EVERY week you mean????

Duckworth_Luas

I get very little done in an 8 hour day, I'd get even less done in a 10 hour one, if we moved to a 13 hour shift I'd probably just end up making work!

corktina

i used to work 6 til 6 4 days a week thats 12 hours a day and then they changed it to 8 til 8 , thats 16 hours...Bastards!

jester77

I was offered this for one of my jobs I had in Frankfurt, although it was a 38.5 hour week. I went with the 5 day week. Having every Friday off when everyone else you know is working would get boring very quick, plus it's nice to be able to finish up and head for a few beers during the week after work. A 4 day week doesn't work too well with after work beers.

Mint Sauce

Tom_Cruise wrote: »

Four 10 hour days = 40 hour week.

This gives an extra day of which could be worked as overtime and still have a weekend of. Also an extra day of for people to shop and spend some cash.

I already work no more than 4 days a week.



Although its shift work.

Greentopia

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

I'm fairly sure the people who enjoy having to go to bed early in order to be up at 6/7AM are in the minority, so why do we in general live like that?

I'm with you on that one. I think it's madness to expect us all to perform at an equally high level in work when our sleep patterns and the amount of sleep we need differs so much from person to person.

This eight hour pattern that we're forced into adopting is completely unnatural for our bodies and it's all down to the Industrial Revolution and the invention of the lightbulb. For millennia before that humans slept in two four hour blocks separated by an hour or so of wakefulness in the middle of the night when people would just either lie in bed, or talk to their partners or pray, get up and do some tasks or even get up and visit their neighbours for a chat!

And of course with the long hours of darkness in the winter and only the wealthy having any light source there wasn't much to do except go to bed early which meant people were getting the sleep their bodies required and suited to for the time of year.

Not that I want to go back to an age of having no light once darkness descends, but I think that seems to me to be a much more healthy way of living than the way our sleeping patterns are organised to suit employers now.

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

If I ever end up running a company I will endeavour to try and change this paradigm.

Me too! I'm self-employed (mainly)-so I get to sleep in a lot anyway :cool:- so it's not beyond the realms of impossibility that I may have someone working for me some day. If the economy ever picks up again that is...

It makes sense to me not just from a health perspective but also from the point of view of getting the best productivity from people to not force them into working hours that are unsuited to them.

Greentopia

What about a 4 hour working day? The IWW union has long campaigned for that. Without wages falling of course, else people would have to work second jobs.

Would many occupations be able to fit their work into 4 hour days I wonder?
As well as being self-employed I also work P/T and I know it'd be no problem to me because of the nature of my job. I know my boss sure as hell would have no trouble. She does sweet F/A as it is :rolleyes:

And I do mean bugger all-she spends 90% of her time in the office either checking out/loading photos of her grandkids onto FB, or playing computer games. And she's only there when she feels like it at that, she thinks nothing of taking the afternoon or morning off at least twice a week.

If she was in private industry she'd be fired long ago.
/rant :mad:

RichT

Tom_Cruise wrote: »

Why hasn't the world adopted a 4 day working week?

Because as soon as it does, people will be screaming for a 3 day working week.

Celly Smunt

I get to take as much time off as i want once the work is done.It's far far more productive,nobody sits around staring at the clock waiting for the day to be over,which in turn saves the company money as well as having a constant flow of finances from contracts being hammered out much earlier than the deadline periods.I can also start anytime i want once i get my task list finished in time.

Greentopia

RichT wrote: »

Because as soon as it does, people will be screaming for a 3 day working week.

No, next up I think would be calls for worker takeover of factories and work places, setting up workers councils/committees, workers co-ops and so on. It's worked in many places-Fábricas recuperadas -"reclaimed/recovered factories in Argentina like the Zanon Ceramics factory, Vio.Me factory in Greece, AK press in the U.S., and of course during the Spanish Revolution when much of Spain's economy was under Anarchist worker's control.

mkdon05

Voltex wrote: »

My 1,000th post...only took about 4 years!

What pussy works 40hrs??...My usual week is about 65!!

Pussies with a life!

ringadingding

corktina wrote: »

i used to work 6 til 6 4 days a week thats 12 hours a day and then they changed it to 8 til 8 , thats 16 hours...Bastards!

8-8 is 12 hours, unless you mean 6-8, which is 14 , unless you mean 2-8 then yeah , bastards :-)

I do around 65 - 70 hours a week, every week.
in the chef world a half day is 8 hours :-)

corktina

i'm wasted in here.....

FloatingVoter

Currently working a 0 hour week at €188 p/w. I find it fulfilling and enjoy the demanding lifestyle that this entails. Now excuse me while I find my bong.

_Kaiser_

It depends on what you do really.

I'm in management these days so my job is split between looking after my team and meetings/emails back and forth with other management and teams, many of which are in other time zones.

I normally work 7:30-4:30/5pm most days and even at that the emails still come in thick and fast up till about 9/10pm. Many of these are FYI or can be dealt with the next day, but there are usually a few that need a reply on receipt.

I do sometimes miss the days of just coming in, doing my shift and going home and forgetting about it till the next day, but if you want to get ahead and earn more money you need to accept that the days of 9-5 have to be left behind.

Mr. CooL ICE

weemcd wrote: »

Why the fúck are we even working 40 hours a week? we have no need to, its only done because its the norm

Because this isn't boards.fr

Teyla Emmagan

I wouldn't be able for it anyway. I only have 7.5 hours of concentration in my brain every day (sometimes less). And then I literally clock off, if I had to sit there for 10 hours a day I'd still only manage to work for 7.5 hours, the rest of it would just be spent staring out the window, or dribbling on myself. And then I'd come in the next day, wrecked.

It depends on the nature of your job I guess. I could stack shelves for 10 hours a day, but I couldn't concentrate on, like really hard stuff, for that long.

NuckingFacker

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

I wouldn't be able for it anyway. I only have 7.5 hours of concentration in my brain every day (sometimes less). And then I literally clock off, if I had to sit there for 10 hours a day I'd still only manage to work for 7.5 hours, the rest of it would just be spent staring out the window, or dribbling on myself. And then I'd come in the next day, wrecked.

It depends on the nature of your job I guess. I could stack shelves for 10 hours a day, but I couldn't concentrate on, like really hard stuff, for that long.

You're a diamond polisher, aren't you? That'd be tough on the eyes alright.

feargale

If only God had made the world in one day and rested for the other six!

Call Me Jimmy

Surely there are studies to show, especially in mentally taxing jobs that, say a 5 hour day rather than 8 will result in greater productivity.

For example, in a software company I was in, time estimated to complete a task took into account the couple of hours a day that are just not productive.

I say this as someone who would like to see a zero hours per day, 7 days a week model take firm root here.

Capt'n Midnight

This isn't something new, Robinson Crusoe got all his work done by Friday.

CrazyRabbit

How about a 2 day 'actual work' week like politicians and civil servants?

Lia_lia

I work 10 hours shifts. So does my Mother.

Hotels ftw

Henlars67

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

How about a 2 day 'actual work' week like politicians and civil servants?

Do you actually know any politicians personally?