The 4 Day Work Week
I wish California would switch its public employees onto the 4 days on, 3 days off, 40 hour per week schedule, for all the reasons mentioned in this post, and also because anyone who has tried to get business done at a state office while working full time knows how difficult it can be when the bureaucracy you need is only open from 9 to 5. Extended hours Monday through Thursday seems like an added convenience for the average citizen.
Slightly off-topic: My folks were living in the LA area during the ’84 Olympics (I was very, very young at the time). They recall that due to concerns about the effect the influx of olympiads and their hangers-on would have on the already-infamous LA commute, Olympic and city officials encouraged employers to stagger their work schedules, so that some employees would work 8-4, some 9-5, some 10-6. They claim that consequentially traffic was actually better during the Olympics than any other time they were in the area, despite any extra stress the Olympics might have added. I always wondered why more companies don’t run their schedules that way (probably something to do with operating costs).
— Blar · Jul 29, 05:18 PM · #
That’s always been my dream, for any job. I’d much rather have the extra day than the extra time in the other days. But then I don’t have kids.
— Freddie · Jul 29, 05:42 PM · #
It’s my dream for most public employees to work a zero day schedule.
— wph · Jul 29, 07:28 PM · #
The manufacturing plant where I worked in 1979 went to a 4×10 schedule during the energy crisis of 1979, but it didn’t stay with it long.
— Steve Sailer · Jul 29, 07:48 PM · #
It’s my dream for most public employees to work a zero day schedule.
Enjoy drinking tainted water and having public buildings fall on your head, wph!
— Freddie · Jul 29, 10:52 PM · #