would you work 20 hours a day for two days a week in order to have the other days free?
>>950846463Get a job
>>950846463That wouldn't be in the employers' best interest, since an employee is already exhausted from work after 8 hours. After 14 hours, their productivity would be very low, and after 18 hours, they'd be completely useless.A 5-day workweek is better. Even a 4-day workweek would be too much for me.
>>950846463If so much wealth wasn't being redistributed to the top 10 percent 4 days at 8 hours a day would be suficient tonsupport a family of 4. Sadly so many are brainwashed into wanting reverse communism.
>>950847638My work is thinking of going from 5x 8hrs to 4x 10hrs. 2 extra hours a day doesn't sound much but I voted against it.
>>950846463my current goal is to go to 3 to 4 days per week with 7 hours each. Should be enough until I am 50 or 55. Then I might reduce it even further.Am currently 40 and on paid leave from march till september till my job gets terminated.And I found out that not working is pretty chill and I don't think that I want to do it anymore. At least not in the 35 or 40 hours per week range.
>>950848716What kind of trouble do you have to get into to get six months of paid leave?
>>950848327That's right. I don't think working two extra hours a day is good for your body and mind in the long run. How did the other employees vote?
>>950846463That's what I kinda did. I worked 12 hours for 3 days and then had a 4 days weekend. Shit would have been cash, if it hadn't been a nightshift job during the weekend.
>>950846463In some countries the doctors/physicians work something like this (shifts even longer than 24 though). At least they did not long ago. They believed it was the most optimal arrangement they could manage. Those doing those shifts would be given long periods to recover.Personally I think I could do that for a while in my 20's and 30's if it were for good reason, but would eventually physically be unable. (Already am, after an IT career with way too many 12- to 36-hour emergencies.)Accepting work under those conditions should depend on it leading to a more sustainable and dependable situation later on.
>>950848993no trouble at all. Business was't that good for the last 2 or 3 years. So they had to kick out 60 people last year and an additional 40 this year. The 6 months are just the standard cancelation period for me because I was working there for quite a long time. But since I had no wife and kids I can't benefit from further employment protection. So as part of my compensation I got this whole period as paid leave in addition to my normal financial compensation.
>>950846463Yes. I already have previous experience working 4 days 3 days off, 10 hour work days.
>>950848327>>950849010Personally those 2 hours per day don't mean as much to me as having 24 hours free.
>>95084763815/16 hours is a double shift.
I've become almost certain that the optimum productivity is at 5-6 hours per day for most days - regardless of how many days you work. I've personally never found it possible to work hard & _productively_ for more than that, without either burning out, or needing an extra long break to recover. A forced 8-hour workday seems always to result in people working lackadaisically for a big portion of the week. Maybe not on week 1, but it seems to end up there.The most productive gig I've been on, was as a farm laborer where the main work was always done between 6:00am and 1pm. Then a long lunch break - enough time to go home, cook & eat lunch and have a siesta. Then we'd have another 2 hours of relaxed work most afternoons, really just finding a few long-term things we could make a little dent in. All the critical work had been completed in the morning.Plenty of overtime, but that worktime was almost invariably well-planned, days ahead, so it never felt like a burden - we'd be well-rested before starting those days, and it felt great seeing all the work get done and being paid a ton of extra.
>>950846463Nope.But i will work 14 hrs a day for 6 days in order to stress that my team at work cant handle my 1 day off.
