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The day is dawning on a four-day work week:
A true four-day workweek entails full-timers clocking about 30 hours instead of 40. There are many reasons why this is appealing today: families are struggling to cover child care in the absence of daycares and schools; workplaces are trying to reduce the number of employees congregating in offices each day; and millions of people have lost their jobs.
A shorter work week could allow parents to cobble together child care, allow workplaces to stagger attendance and, theoretically, allow the available work to be divided among more people who need employment.
The most progressive shorter work week entails no salary reductions. This sounds crazy, but it rests on peer-reviewed research into shorter work weeks, which finds workers can be as productive in 30 hours as they are in 40, because they waste less time and are better-rested.
30 hours is for pikers. The !Kung work about 20.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Friday June 05 2020, @09:19PM (3 children)
Plus free money from Social Security and free medical care through Medicaid.
But yeah, they're super opposed to socialism!
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday June 06 2020, @02:23AM (1 child)
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2020, @02:42AM
No, but stripping away all the bureaucracy that's in place purely to create barriers to entry will make it competitive with the existing system, and the additional economic benefits of a healthier populace should smoothly negate any extra costs.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2020, @03:32AM
And socialists are opposed to Capitalism, but they never leave the capitalist countries they complain about, nor do they forgo anything produced by capitalism such as smartphones, Apps, laptops, tablets, 4K TV's, The cloud, media streaming, social media, state of the art medical treatment & dental treatment, Tesla-essentially every object, item, and service you use every day.