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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2020, @01:59AM
I went independendent for the same reason.
It had become painfully obvious to me that corporate hiring departments had no way of dealing with people who know what they are good at, and what they suck at. They excel in finding those who will say anything to get a check.
Those of us who know what we are doing are best left to our own means. The corporate guy gets the rest...until they wise up.