Yeah, totally respect your opinion, but I emphatically disagree with it. The goal of what’s being discussed here isn’t to maximize production for the sake of shareholders, it’s to maximize quality of life for employees. To that end, five six-hour days are worse than four 8-to-10-hour days.
If I start work at 8 and get off work at 2:30 or 3, I still can’t start my camping trip a day early, or spend the day at the water park with my kids. I still have to give up n x 10 hours of my life, where n is my commute time, assume I work in-office.
I would much rather work until 630 Monday through Thursday, and have an extra day where full-day activities are possible every week. That’s worth more to me than 10 extra hours per week of after-work time.
Yeah, I’m sure that works better for a lot of people, think it’s just a personal preference thing.
But if you’re starting at 7:30, a 10 hour day would only put you at 5:30… and then you get three consecutive days to yourself every single weekend. To me, that sounds amazing, but maybe it’s not for everyone.
Edit: Shit if I had the option to work 3 13 hour days and getting 4 days off a week, I would probably take that more weeks than not. Kind of depends on what you’re doing though I guess. 13 hours in retail or food service would be absolute hell.
Yeah, totally respect your opinion, but I emphatically disagree with it. The goal of what’s being discussed here isn’t to maximize production for the sake of shareholders, it’s to maximize quality of life for employees. To that end, five six-hour days are worse than four 8-to-10-hour days.
If I start work at 8 and get off work at 2:30 or 3, I still can’t start my camping trip a day early, or spend the day at the water park with my kids. I still have to give up n x 10 hours of my life, where n is my commute time, assume I work in-office.
I would much rather work until 630 Monday through Thursday, and have an extra day where full-day activities are possible every week. That’s worth more to me than 10 extra hours per week of after-work time.
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Yeah, I’m sure that works better for a lot of people, think it’s just a personal preference thing.
But if you’re starting at 7:30, a 10 hour day would only put you at 5:30… and then you get three consecutive days to yourself every single weekend. To me, that sounds amazing, but maybe it’s not for everyone.
Edit: Shit if I had the option to work 3 13 hour days and getting 4 days off a week, I would probably take that more weeks than not. Kind of depends on what you’re doing though I guess. 13 hours in retail or food service would be absolute hell.