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in the market for a new job and article this morning about australian companies trialing and succeeding with 4 day work weeks here has me glimmer of hoping. difference in quality of life between 5 and 4 days is incredible.
Just gotta make sure it's not Bunnings' idea of a 4 day work week which is really just a compressed work week (same ft hours over 4 days)
but MoRe HoUrS == mOrE pRoDuCtiVe
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I am going to be a pioneer of the 2 day work week (20 hours a day)
I think I'll stick with my 2 day work week. Two 12 hour days, then two days off. Repeat. I'd rather less hours, but in the absence of that this works pretty well.
For real. I prefer 5x8 over 4x10.
We do a 3/4 day on Fridays and even that adds to quality of life dramatically
haven't heard of that before, sounds excellent. speaking only for office/knowledge jobs and maybe not 100% of jobs are like this but.. almost every one i have had has contained substantial filler, would happily trade for time off and more compressed/efficient work hours. we would easily spend half a day a week in meetings that don't need to happen.
It really is nice. I did half day Fridays for years and the weekend felt extra.