Yes plz.
I’d honestly prefer the four day workweek, as in four days of working eight hours. But seeing as the employers’ lobby and their cronies will never let that happen, some additional holidays would be nice.
I’d much rather have a general work reduction: 30 hour weeks please!
I found that even one additional hour per day to spend on family and enjoyment was improving my work output in a way that it almost negated the one hour of worktime lost.
It may be depended on the type of work, but many of the trials being held around this seems to point out that production or quality doesn’t lower and general well-being increases. Although I’d argue that a reduction in production isn’t really a problem: we’re very productive in our country as it is; (over)production adds to waste and pollution; and any shortage in production can be compensated by just hiring more people.
I’d love this but I don’t see it happening right now. There doesn’t seem to be any momentum for improving workers lives at this time.
Get active! Agitate! At least actively propose and defend all suggestions towards the betterment of working people. The establishment thrives on passivity.
I do wonder how effective this would be if for example a multinational can simply withdraw from Belgium or even the EU :-( Even if the argument was made that it was more efficient or at least not less efficient than the status quo, a lot of these companies have a very heavy US-biased view on work-life-balance (see for for example the current RTO initiatives as well).
The EU is the biggest single market in the world. Absolutely no multinationals are leaving because of improved worker conditions.
