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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: 2) by Thexalon on Saturday June 06 2020, @11:17AM
If you have 1 employer who wants to pay you as a 1099 contractor, especially if that employer is putting all the same demands on you that they would an employee like setting your hours and controlling exactly how you do your job, then odds are pretty good you are being misclassified [dol.gov], which is illegal but not uncommon. So that employer is announcing to you that they're perfectly willing to break labor laws, and you should avoid working for them if you can.
That's not the kind of situation I was describing at all, though: My transition to contractor was the result of an agency willing to set me up with a 20-hour a week gig that covered my basic expenses, then I used the other 20 hours of my work day to find and do contract work, and slowly build up a base of regulars until I didn't need the 20-hour-a-week gig anymore.
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