The campaign for a 4-day work week gains momentum after “The Great Resignation” saw 47 million Americans quit their jobs in 2021 due to burnout. According to 4 Day Week Global, 63% of businesses say a shorter week made it easier to attract and retain talent and 78% of employees claimed they were happier.
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Frankly, after having worked 12 hour shifts I would never go back to a M-F 9-5. Regimen. Yes, with 12 hour shifts basically your whole day is spent at your job but for every two weeks I only worked 7 days.
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If they can get as much work done in a four day week vs a five day week it seem like they were only doing four days of work.
The lazy continue to get lazier.
🙄🙄 It’s no longer about hours.
I hope this happens globally. Hotels can arrange shifts so that each employee is only working 4 days out of the week. It doesn’t have to be unequal. People are mentally suffering, and I really think the rat race along with the pressure to make ends meet, and of course, insufficient health care are contributing to our current mental health crisis and huge crime waves.
Not when you need money to pay bills …
Exactly!
@777 Wisdom Well these greedy cirporations need to pay us more bro!
Go home all of you who can’t take it, I’ll keep work 5 or 6 12 hour days.
@JB um, idk what you’re talking about but every single person I know goes outside. Not to mention I work outside and the place I work is packed constantly with customers.
Good boy. Sit!
Thats fine go make the rich richer like a good lil sheep. just dont ever complain or cry about anything ever again.
It’s funny because Joe has no life!🤣
After that, they’ll be fighting for a three day work week, and then after that….well, you get the idea. 90% of the people in this country don’t even know how to cook Mac N Cheese right now because someone else is doing all their grocery shopping or dropping off a hot meal on their doorstep every day for them.
Where did you get your statistic of 90% of the people in this country don’t know how to cook mac & cheese? Just throwing stuff out there I guess? This whole take is pointless, I’m sorry. People are working themselves to death for companies that don’t care. And you are complaining about people wanting a little more balance in their lives? OK I guess work more then.
@Gavin & Avedis If people didn’t want to be so anxious and depressed and truly wanted more balance in their lives they wouldn’t spend 15 hours per day staring at their phones and scrolling through social media. Give me a break.
your spear of people is narrow, people are staring at their phone because they have no life fulfillment because they can’t afford the trips other post online or they can’t get the time off, nobody at NY Healthcare job looks at social media and we start work at 6am and work to 5pm most days, for 5 days a week. Working 5 of 7 days for most of your life is not much of a life unless you own a corporation and your workers are making the money for you
If people are making overtime after 32 hours then they can still choose to work 40 hours a week if they want to. This isn’t hard. And “wage increases“ have in no way, shape or form kept up with the average cost of living. Some of these people are not living in reality. They must make too much money.
A Federal minimum wage of $7.25 is adequate enough to provide a decent living. I don’t understand what the big stink is all about.
@Korn Kob Kenny Sarcasm noted
@Gavin & Avedis Affirmative.
The GOP (Gut Our People) still whines about higher wages causing inflation, when we now know it’s unnecessarily high prices caused by greedy corporations . They jack up costs to consumers in order to buy back their own stocks and reward their executives with obscene profits. Wake up, Americans, and reclaim your government and your lives.
not workers, owners will feel they have less control
it’s more equitable for child care, parent participation, having a second job, or working on an opportunity or home project, this is great for poor people specifically, only business owners have a problem with this as they are getting less from their workers/servants who they barely give wage increases to, this gives workers more opportunity and power over their lives and more time to change jobs when their employer is not allowing for work life balance
the home projects, yes! and it isn’t even just frivolous updates….like there are so many old homes that need maintenance and updates. I feel torn so thin between all I need to get done for work, for my home projects, and my family
Yep
Marc sucks
inflation is occurring because companies are profit greedy and decided to raise prices I order to make up for lost cash during pandemic despite they are not struggling at all, its abhorrent how capitalism, unchecked, is ruining the middle class which could purchase and pay off a house in 10 years, not it takes a whole life time to pay odd one property thanks to the poor use of our tax dollars in Congress, rich people right off everything, middle class is taxed for everything, now the corporations are whining about their workers actually wanting to have a life for the meager wage growth they receive every year at a company after working 50 hours or more because a company refuses to hire enough people so vacations, and sick leave are not a problem for their workers
It’ll work..until your laid off. Then your gonna be begging the government for section 8 and ebt cards.
Or they could just find another job….
Your talking about unqualified uneducated workers. Employment is limited. Amazon..ups..FedEx or Walmart are the employment options
Biden Famine 2022
I’m a dumb uneducated lazy worker. I work by the hour. I need the guberment to make this happen! I can’t achieve success on my own! Only a democrat can help me 🥴😵💫
I miss 4 day work weeks. Every weekend was a three day weekend, and every other weekend was a three day, pay day weekend!
The lobbyist used every excuse he could think of. But blaming rising wages for inflation is laughable. Wage growth has been stagnant for decades, unless you are upper management of course. No wonder people are leaving companies that use lame excuses for low wages — while pretending their record profits aren’t spendable on labor and benefits. Production and transportation problems, as well as profiteering are causing rampant inflation, and greed is creating unwanted jobs.
I would work longer hours and harder for that one extra day.
People got spoiled during the pandemic when their work schedule changed. They didn’t realize how hard they’ve been working on work and not themselves. An extra day of may help with self development. I’m always surprised when I get hired because my resume is so short and sweet. I’ve spent most of my years working on myself and not work. Somehow it’s worked out.
No they got lazy period are they giving you the same money to work 4 days.
Good for the lazy people I want a full work week
How about making people have staggered start times so you don’t have 10 million people commute to work at the same time and jam up traffic!
Car pooling saves on gas and it environmentally friendly- with your idea, that would be out the door
We used to be forced to work 6-7 days a week at the plant I work for. We’ve been on a four day work week for two years and got decent raises with the opportunity to volunteer extra day’s of overtime. The job I once hated, I now love and my coworkers feel the same as well.
This is great to hear! 👍
Awesome
3:48 Did he say “tight” labor market?
🧐🧐🧐🤔🤔🤔
Fine, If you don’t work a real job. Dude at the end of the video can confirm.
What about 4, 9 hour shifts?
It’s not a 4 day work week if your working 12 hours a day.
So unemployment hasn’t actually dropped… 🤔
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Of course a republican would be against a 4 day work week.
Conservatives are for sure against this. They seem to enjoy people being miserable servants to the “market.”
What a racket.
Great for federal , state, county and municipal employees.
The great liberal ” more for less ” idea.
Im open 6 so I don’ t need any 4 day employees.
Bye!
Basic income.
Why , because we all know that there will never be enough jobs to employ the entire world population full time.
Working , is a privilege. You as a responsible citizen , applied your will to aquire various skills and knowledge that has made you valuable to society , so this you as an individual should get paid up to four times more then a person who has not applied them selves .
Up to four times more . Tiers of skills and tiers of pay. Like now , but with a basement .
Pretty cool. College career jobs are going 4 day work weeks and regular jobs are thinking about 32hr work weeks with anything over 32 being paid at time and a half.
If anything this makes people want to college even more!!! Great educated jobs+4 day work weeks+ great pay. Oh man sounds like the dream!
4 , 8hour days or 4, 10hour days
I work three 12 hour shifts. I won’t have it any other way.
The economic hardship, recession, unemployment and the loss of job caused by covid pandemic is enough to push people into financial ventures. I’m taking a trip into investing because I lost so much during this pandemic. Multi creation of wealth is the best strategy to ensure financial sustainability..
I just sent her a message and she responded. Thanks a lot!
Interesting. I have a lump sum doing absolutely nothing at all in my bank account, I wanna get something started with it. You seem to be doing excellent for yourself. thanks this is really helpful for my situation.💯
4-Day work week is a good idea but its not feasible for every job sector to implement this model. And it should be 4-day & 40 hour work week i.e employee works 10 hour a day for 4 days a week, if we follow this approach we can get bipartisan support in congress.
Business owners aren’t just going to give you OT pay at 32+ hours. They’ll delegate the work to other employees working different shifts.
Oh please! Burnout? Don’t forget- to mention how BIDEN “paid” people NOT TO WORK & stay unemployed…!!!
I told my job at some point I’m only available 4 days, because overtime is not allowed. So being understaffed I would end up staying late alone in the office. It’s unacceptable I would stay after hours late and I did not get paid any overtime at all. But I was told I had to complete my work task regardless. . I had to fight for a 4 day work week and it forced my employer to hire a part time help. I work for a large medical center owned by private equity firm so I don’t care what the corporate higher ups think. I refuse to overwork myself and not get paid overtime while the private equity firm that owns us makes their big money. I admit it’s hard to get an employer to let you work 4 days. It was for me. But now when I stay late it’s only if I choose to and if so I’m not working for free after hours and now I get paid for the total hours I work. I encourage everyone to try and fight for a four day work week.
Why work cross the border and everything is Free
Only in your head.
i can barely make ends meet as it is. how is pulling another 8 to 9 hours out of my check going to help?
Remote work ftw, 2:00 yes outcomes this was always the case lol
Funny how its rich old people saying this is a bad idea… fk off… give us the 4 day work week…
This is a GREAT idea! More time for SELFCARE!!
America is so far behind compared to the rest of the world.(read: ‘socialist’ countries)
4 days a week should be equated with the reduced compensation. Compensation is called “compensation” for the work, and if 4-days’ work can’t complete the 5-days’ workload, then the compensation should be reduced proportionately. That is an equity.
Also since every business has customers to take care of, 4-day workload should cover the customers’ need to contact 24 hours/7days.
Without customers, what does any business need to do?
This should be a discussion topic from 3 sides: from employer’s business strategy, from the needs of customers, from the working sides. Compensation should be determined according to the workload. Do not expect that you can get the same amount of salary or wage that was set for the 5-day work, by working 4 days.
we need this in new mexico
Honestly if they switch to a four-day week and that should be fine for every job and and for the jobs that he was talking about garbage man and so on and so forth those kind of people that are dated a people should also have a four-day week with a chance of getting overtime and also get call-in pay on that day if the company needs them to work it
I worked 4/10 hour days for the State of California in the late 80’s into the 90’s. loved it and it was the best of both Worlds, less drive time, more time with family and still got the work done!!!
This sounds like it helps office workers. And leaves out labourers and many other types of employment.
When I worked a job with a 4 day work week policy, it was amazing! 3 days off is close enough to a vacation, you almost kinda/want to go back to work
It would be nice to have a shorter work week. Especially for anyone performing hard labor. Sadly, I don’t think anyones schedule would change, it would only be 8 hours of overtime pay a week. Basically a slight pay raise
Republicans are such absolute trash. When’s that civil war?
who will do the work? Burn out will remain there as well. If this passes , we need to crank 5 day work in 4 day work.
While I’m for 4 day work weeks, the real time saver for maximum productivity and budget boosting is just simply letting people work remote forever if they are able to. I’ve done group surveys inside companies and on average at least 72% of the employees said they’d prefer to work from home and it wasn’t a comparison to hybrid or at all for going back to an office.
Sooooooooooo Same $$$ or loss of 1/5 or your income ?
That’s great for anyone making great wages, but the rest of us, can’t afford a day off!
As well,…now the employer knows his production numbers will go away down,…so you can look forward to putting a lot more products out each day to compensate the lose of an extra day!
What’s wrong with working for Amazon at 18 dollars an hour!?
Your going to be so busy, you’ll feel like a one legged man, that just picked a fight with Jackie Chan,…and you’ll be screamed at more then Majorie Taylor Green’s ex husband!
I really hope this catches on. We need MORE than two days off from work, especially if you have a family. We need 1 day for socializing and hobbies, one day for rest, and one day for taking care of responsibilities out side of work. Trying to cram that all into two days is exhausting. There’s more to life then just working until we die!
Also I love the made up cons of a 4 day work week, just a bunch of business owners spreading a false narrative because it COULD effect their personal profits, despite it improving the lives of their workers and their families.
The hotel workers and garbage workers, etc excuses made me laugh. As if it would be hard to give those same workers a four day work week and simply pay them overtime for working an additional day or hiring more workers to rotate the shifts. They already do that anyway on jobs that require round the clock service or seven days a week service. I used to be an on call employee at a homeless shelter. There were plenty of on call and rotational staff, especially if anyone called out sick.
Yeah till companies only let you work 32 hours a week and bring on extra employees and never pay over time. I’ll keep my 5 days a week and my current pay check, thanks.
A 4 day work week is foolish. Decrease the length of the work day. 7hrs max
Don’t forget toxic work environments. You can love everything else about your job, but a toxic work environment will cause good employees to leave. It shouldn’t have taken a pandemic for a 4 day work week to gain momentum. Employers are desperate to get people in the door or back at work. What about employees who have been desperate for some kind change all along?
Many corporate positions can very well function and thrive with a four day work week. This will reduce burn out and probably improve the mental and physical health of employees.
“It doesn’t really contribute to a more equitable society” ….stfu. It does… salary employees get an extra day off and hourly employees get 8 hours of OT a week. It’s a win-win.
It’s pretty sad that a majority of our time is taken up from working a job, just so we can support ourselves. I fully support a 4 day work week.
For my hourly job I wish my job would be working Monday through Thursday 6am-4:30pm instead of Monday through Friday 6-2:30 but I’m in retail though my position has 6 holidays off and stuff so it would be great to be able to choose 4 10 hour days over 5 8 hour days. Though when I used to work overnight I did 4 10 hour nights
I work 5 eleven hour shifts and I hate it. I have to take 3 thirty mg Adderall just to get through the day
Great More Lazy Workers…. where are all my good HARD workers
This needs to pass!
Laughs in restaurant worker
Man, Americans are becoming so lazy. In Asian countries, people work for 6 days a week.
People shouldn’t have to work 2 jobs = 80 hours a week to support themselves. Half of Americans don’t qualify for massive loans for a bachelor’s.
Yes to 4 days a week
Two day a week is better! 12 weeks of hoilday pay helps too.
My work schedule for the company i work for is 10 hour days Monday through Thursday and optional 6 hour day Friday if you want over time or need to catch up.
It’s actually very nice, I can do everything I need to do in one day or just a extra day to relax.
I wrote a letter to a prominent political figure 7 years ago suggesting this exact thing as a response to rising unemployment and advancements in technology replacing human labor. I never received a response of any kind. As annoying as that is, at least I know that I was on the right track with that idea and it’s finally being explored.
People need to stop being lazy af !!
Yes please
Four days at 10 hours a day? Seems like six of one and half a dozen of the other.
Its great, the nay sayers got it wrong..there is no wage increase federal wage is 7.50 so idk what hes talking about. The other was some people have to work. Yeah we all do. N getting ot at 32 will help those that do. Your mandatory work is valued then
YESSSSSSS
Let’s go!!!!!!!!!
We did 12 on and 12 off for a 4-day work week when I was in the military. It worked great for shore-duty commands. However, a butthurt female officer who had something to prove ruined the party, and she made us go back to 12 on and 12 off for a 5-day work week just because she said EnLiStEd MuSt be GaInFuLlY eMpLoYeD. She took over the maintenance department, and she didn’t last long as expected. That is what she got for trying to get a better fitrep at the expense of those who are under her.
Ok but checks will be reduced and California is one of the most expensive states out there and wages aren’t increasing. When rent and gas is.
Since the president wants to RISE PRICES ON EVERYTHING should be a reason to RISE OUR WAGES!!!! 😡 because in reality 4 days for me won’t cover my bills!!!! BRING UP THE WAGES!!!