It often feels like there are only 3 productive hours in typical American white collar work day.

What if we just cut out the rest?

Edit: Some great responses. So responses must have also been said about the 5 day and 40 hour work weeks.

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Ok. Let’s say we have 4 hour workdays, 4 day work weeks. Not just for white collar.

A business would require to hire 2 more people to cover a 24h continuous prosuction line (3 8h shifts to 5 4h shifts).

there would be more employment and higher productivity. More happiness I suspect.

I’d take it.

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A lot has been said about that when talking about universal basic income. The idea is that people could work half shifts and make the rest up under UBI

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6 x 4 = 24

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you are entirely correct., and the first person to spot my simple math mistake.

thanks for correcting 😊

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