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.
My company instituted half days for Friday (really it’s 3-3.5hrs) 3 years ago and it still feels amazing. We all work from home that morning tidying up a few things, have an all hands meeting, then break for the weekend at lunch. It has honestly changed my life as a parent of 2. Every week I have 5 hours during a time when all business are open to do whatever I need. Doctor appointments, deep cleans for the house, laundry, whatever.
Sometimes there isn’t a lot to do, so I just get to sit the down for a minute and watch a movie or play a video game or go on a walk when it’s nice out.
It’s been life changing. Not an exaggeration. We need a 4 day work week.
Vote progressive.
Bernie is about the only Senator and up that even talks about it.
Republicans and neoliberals will fight it out of principle that workers need to work, even tho most businesses are open 7 days a week and 4 days for full time would create a significant amount of more jobs.
4 day work week across the board will never happen. it’s not about productivity, it’s about control. they don’t give a rat’s ass if you’re stressed, as long as you’re beholden to them. not only that, but your corporate owners can’t stand the fact that ti’s even a 40 hour week in the first place, instead of 80
I used to work 4/10hr a week. That quickly turned into mandatory 5/10hrs, every single week.
I work 4/10 at my current job and I love it. Given the choice between 5/8s or 4/10s, I’ll always take the 4 longer shifts. We do have OT in the summer but its completely optional and nobody cares whether you do OT or not.
But I lucked out, good paying job with good bosses that actually reward people with raises/promotions for doing good, and they’re just good people in general. I just got promoted after 6 months and got a raise with it.
I’m not against a 4 day work week… but I couldn’t care less if if the respondents think they will be more productive. They might as well be asking for a preference. There are actual metrics.