Americans want a four day work week

[Magical Realist]

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-fo...2018-10-06

"trimming their hours from around 40 to 32 per week"

Maybe more productive, but also earning less.

Working a 4 day work week made employees more productive and happier than working a 5 day work week. So much for your lie that they'd be less happy.

[Leigha]

I’m salaried plus bonuses (I’m in marketing) and flex time is common, or working from home is an option. Working from home shaves off commuting time which that factors into a workday, too. (imo) I have friends who work four days per week, but as long as their work is done and they meet deadlines etc, they don’t have to work extra hours. Some weeks vary. If you’re hourly, it would be different. Then cutting back to four days might not be worth it.

[Syne]

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-fo...2018-10-06

"trimming their hours from around 40 to 32 per week"

Maybe more productive, but also earning less.

Working a 4 day work week made employees more productive and happier than working a 5 day work week. So much for your lie that they'd be less happy.

Who said "less happy"? That's just your own straw man/lie.
When people complain about the minimum wage not being $15/hour, which also tends to result in them losing hours, it's hard to see them being for earning less.

I’m salaried plus bonuses (I’m in marketing) and flex time is common, or working from home is an option. Working from home shaves off commuting time which that factors into a workday, too. (imo) I have friends who work four days per week, but as long as their work is done and they meet deadlines etc, they don’t have to work extra hours. Some weeks vary. If you’re hourly, it would be different. Then cutting back to four days might not be worth it.

That's the thing about salary, you could just as easily end up working 80 hours a week. All it takes is another recession, and half your coworkers are laid off and you get to pick up the slack for the same pay...IOW, your time is suddenly worth half.

[Leigha]

Yea, true ^^ but thankfully, I've never been taken advantage of (yet) but an employer, in terms of overtime, etc. My job tends to coincide with the schedules of execs (clients) in other companies who work typical daytime schedules, so unless I was working on an international account where the time zones would be off (that happens in my firm, though with some of my colleagues assigned to those types of accounts) then, I work a consistent 8 to 9 hour day.

[Magical Realist]

When people complain about the minimum wage not being $15/hour, which also tends to result in them losing hours, it's hard to see them being for earning less.

And yet they are for it because they are happier with working 4 days.. Sometimes it's not all about the money.

[Syne]

Again, not knowing how many people polled have actual experience with it makes it a dubious conclusion. Many may like the "idea", but find the actuality less than desirable.

[Leigha]

A few of my friends love it, they have opted to work four day workweeks, but longer hours Monday through Thursday. I've read an article recently about how corporate America needs to change how it views productivity. You can have an employee who completes his/work work very efficiently, in less than 40 hours, but for some reason this ''40 hour work week'' has become synonymous with what it means to be highly productive. ''Clocking in'' for forty hours per week or more, doesn't mean you're a good employee, it just means you're physically present at your job, for those hours. (Unless you're in a call center environment, work in hospitality, retail, nursing, etc...where certain hours are expected to accommodate customers/clients/patients)

That said, it's just an option that employers offer. If someone tries out the flex schedule so they can have Fridays off, but ends up hating it, they can switch back to working Monday through Friday.

[Syne]

And that's up to each employer. If they think it's an incentive that can lure talent from competitors, they might use it. Hopefully no one is foolish enough to push it as government regulation.

[Leigha]

Not sure what the motivation would be to mandate a flex time schedule, by the government, but stranger things...

That said, I wouldn't want it to be thrust upon me in the form of a mandate. Not sure I'd really like an ongoing schedule of long 4 day workweeks, so I could have Fridays off. I'd have to experiment to see if I'd like it.

[Syne]

Well, people are pushing the government for a $15 minimum wage, paternity leave, etc., even though that would raise prices and cost the very jobs they hope to help. Lots of leftists policies are ill-conceived with unintended consequences.