Young adults are throwing their support behind calls for a four-day workweek.
A new national survey from CNBC/Generation Lab of 1,033 people aged 18 to 34 found that an overwhelming 81% of respondents believe a four-day workweek would boost their company’s productivity, while 19% said productivity would decline.
Those results from the “Youth & Money in the USA” survey come amid discussions around the potential benefits of switching from the standard five-day U.S. workweek to a four-day cadence without a pay cut.
Some companies have begun testing the arrangement, and say it has mitigated employee burnout and strengthened business performance.
We don’t need a survey of opinions to see if it would boost productivity…
We have studies:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/02/21/four-day-work-week-results-uk/
We know 4/week is better for everyone
And even if it didn’t, I don’t care. We’ve boosted productivity constantly and with not much increase to wages, just to inflation. The haymarket martyrs would be sad we left it at 40 hours and put up with so much shit
4/day workweeks would be huge for the economy, just like three day weekends are now.
People would be out spending money even if they don’t go out often with 2 day weekends.
That’s the worst part, everyone wins if we do it, and we still can’t do it.