Growing popularity of the 4-day workweek | The Shifting Workplace 

Boomer CEO’s are getting ready for retirement 😉 What they _”allow”_ will be of little concern very soon. Behold, a new gen (always) comes.

They've held on stronger than any other gen.

True, life was meant to be lived.

Then who's gonna deliver me goods and medicines at evenings or on weekends?

@@Mohsin-hu2pk the people who have of monday or thursday

School and office the shorter the better who wants to work but needs to work 4 days and 6 hours a day no study needed

@@Mohsin-hu2pk A person can still work a 4-day work week. It doesn't always have to be M-Th or Tu-F, 8-5. People can still work evenings and weekends. Someone can work Fr-Mo and get the middle of the week off (which I would love - fewer people out at restaurants, movie theaters, grocery stores, etc.).

I totally agree!! But as a very white collar worker, i still hope i could nonetheless haha

How about every person deserves a life

Wow. Another reason why Amazon became hugely successful!

Yeah but Amazon don’t pay enough to live. Therefore all jobs need to do this. People are burnt out and need lives outside of bills

@@Cometalktome Amazon must pay enough because....people keep working there. Every time you look at an Amazon warehouse, people keep showing every morning to work. So obviously they're paying enough.

@@mlh5434No people work there because its easy to get a job at amazon. Amazon has a very high turn over rate lol. I work at amazon.

Does your 9 hours include lunch ?

You should be getting EVERY Monday off. I hope it happens for you.

It is. If that’s implemented in the future, 6 hours should the be the standard. Unless these companies don’t mind burning out their workers that fast.

Assuming you’re not exhausted. 😏

@@benjackson7872 it’s a struggle either way. 5 days a week or 4. Try it you may like it.

@@325N I’ll take 6 hours any day.

Bit confused. Of course we love freedom, but we also like to not starve. Most good jobs here are digital or the trades. There should definitely be more push for the trades as they are hands on, vital, and pay well. I'd love to be an oceanographer but the pay is crap. Thus I work in tech. I'm 28 and earn $112k+. I like my job, i love the life my wage gives, and full circle I guess i love my job. Eventually I'd like to do my own business and consult alone but until then, work what I've got.

@@djm2189 Ok. good for you. I don't have a tech job and I don't starve.

@@djm2189 the point is you get paid the same for lesser hours. Many developed countries have moved to the 32 hours week. We just sticking with this archaic method that comes at cost of family and personal time.

Americans are groomed into work from an early stage in their development (hints why school is 5 days a week Mon-Fri). We are a nation obsessed with productivity and profits at all costs and clearly it shows in the mental health and well being of our society. Working to better society is important but not at the cost of the workers. Humans were not created to just be worker drones while failing to enjoy life.

@@Truth-of-the-matter Absolutely.

it about time and labor and the cost

​@@punapeter ^ found the crabby boss

Weird to talk this way about your own business.

You're assuming everyone would do it. They wouldn't. Just like remote work, not everyone can. I do see some more shift work but it'd be days vs hours. Every other Friday you work, etc.

they vacuumed up everything “the greatest generation” left to them , enriched themselves, and now they’re telling everyone else to get off their lawn.

Yup they need to mind their business

Of course they can, they already have shifts going 7 days a week. It would be easier for them than white collar jobs.

If revenue is up double digits with the switch is there a reason you can make the same pay or even more for less hours? Or do you think the companies should keep all the extra revenue without rewarding the people who created that money even one bit?

It's called progress. Humans need a better life.

My comment must be confusing. I'm not saying that we shouldn't be paid the same wage for less hours, nor that we aren't due an increase in pay. We absolutely, at a bare minimum, regardless of how the work week is defined, deserve a huge increase in salary. The lowest paid minimum wage worker should be receiving $20-25 per hour when initiated, with experienced workers receiving at least $30-50/hr. This should occur without a subsequent increase in the cost of goods and services. Why is it that while our wages have been basically stagnant since the 80's, lawyers (as an example,) who were charging $50-100/hr. then, now charge $200-350/hr. or more? I don't believe we will see higher wages or a shorter work week (with or without a salary revision) any time soon and we *defintely* won't if the Republicans win the White House and/or while they hold a majority in the House or Senate. I say this because of what occurred when the Trump administration, with a Republican majority in Congress, passed the corporate tax reductions just before Christmas in 2017. One of their talking points was that this reduction would benefit workers because businesses would use the money saved to raise worker wages and improve working conditions. What actually happened after the tax cut was approved was a very different scenario. A few businesses gave their workers a one-time Christmas bonus of $100 +/- without a salary increase. The majority gave neither a bonus nor increased wages. Instead, their top executives received more salary increases, bonuses and benefits, while they also used those profits to repurchase their company stock. It's only by the people, for the people, of the people when corporations are the people.

If you can't manage your hard worked money, this will happen with or without one day off.

They could if there were more people

@@NathanHedglin It shows you know nothing. Apparently you think more coverage leads to better results and reliability. Not always the case and that ignores costs.

Just don't work those jobs. LOL

@@sinisterintelligence3568 You better not be in the emergency room when they are short staffed xd

Still worth it

​@@NathanHedglin also less commuting

Our pay is already low. So, it would be fair.

Someone is jealous

@Nathan Hedglin Sounds like someone is childish. No, I'm not jealous. I'm just realistic, and most jobs can't run on a 4 day schedule. People want services 7 days a week. Some jobs are more essential than others.

@@NathanHedglin Similar to remote work. When you don't even show up to work. Im not jealous. Because I know the real reason. As soon as AI can input faster than you. Your job is gone. Our jobs are stable. So don't forget to save money. For when your job is no longer filled by a human.

Most? Please enumerate the reasons (and proof) as to why.

It’s not that the place is only open 4 days, it’s the fact that each person works 4 shifts. Covering each others off days

you've never worked hard in your life if you have to ask this

@@mybedroomtv Put myself through college working three jobs. I lived without running water while doing so. At the age of 50, I have yet to meet someone that can work me under the table.

@@rc-st9pg cool so then you just enjoy being exploited lol think about what your saying

​@@mybedroomtv to some people, being exploited is a kink.

Someone failed highschool

Because there’s only 1 doctor 😂

@@jigglypuff4ever and on friday, sat, sundays there are none.

@@jigglypuff4ever You cannot just walk in any doctors. Doctors are usually only by appointment only. If they only worked 4 days a week, the appointment will be harder to reserve. I refer working 5 days a week. There are some works that the longer you work, the less efficient you are.

@@anonymous05067 there are plenty of docs that you can just walk into (? 🤔) Typically you only need to make an appointment to see *your* primary care provider. Theres also more than one doctor in the world to make an appointment with. How folks think the world would crash and burn if a business was unavailable to them one additional day is mind boggling.

You are describing why capitalism will destroy it self in the long run which is why we should have had a socialist revolution in the US a long time ago. The means of production should be controlled by the working class for the working class, the proletariat, the 99%. AI and automation should be used to serve humanity, just continue make those that own it even more rich then they already are. After all that technology was not created by them but by humanity by a long line of nameless and faceless scientists, engineers, coders, laborers, etc. Capitalism will fail eventually, it is just a matter of time and it is based on too many contradictions in the system that will pull it apart sooner or later, what we replace it with will be up to us. Will it be better or worse? Who knows, but Socialism offers us a chance at a better more rational system of political economy.

They are going to do that anyway

This will happen no matter what. That's why you build skills that aren't just data in putters. Managing projects, people, vendors. Having a good balanced set of soft and hard skills. I know my job will be secure.