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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAndrew Yang says it's time to supersize America's weekend
Like your long weekend? Andrew Yang wants you to get used to it.
The surprisingly successful Democratic presidential candidate says America should seriously look into switching to a four-day work week.
3-Day weekends are better than 2-Day weekends, Yang tweeted in a timely message as Americans mark the beginning of summer with a long weekend.
Link to tweet
Yang claims that studies show workers would be more productive and healthier if they only worked Monday to Thursday (or. Tuesday to Friday).
Read more: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-andrew-yang-three-day-weekend-20200525-3bshuddeebhwrjvkfpf4emgrwy-story.html
blm
(113,019 posts)jimfields33
(15,705 posts)Fridays are the least productive days for companies as workers tend to be excited for The Weeknd. It would just transfer to Thursdays being least productive day.
Fla_Democrat
(2,547 posts)Well, then I think the next thing will be calls for a 4 day weekend.
jimfields33
(15,705 posts)See where were going?
Bev54
(10,039 posts)I am concerned about whether the companies will reduce benefits though
a kennedy
(29,618 posts)EllieBC
(2,990 posts)if the hours were less than 36-40. Most people that work 4 days work 10 hour days. Not 8 hour days.
Bev54
(10,039 posts)but I do not think that is what they are considering in this situation. It is about more time off, not working longer hours. It is about putting more people to work, even if on a part time basis.
EllieBC
(2,990 posts)At least where I am. Unless you want to work 2-3 jobs youll never make rent on a shitty 1 room basement suite with a part time job. Also while basic health care is covered, most employers offer extended benefits to full time employees that take care of dental, vision, prescriptions, more physio sessions than regular medical covers, etc.. But again you dont get them at part time which is another reason no one wants to work part time.
Bev54
(10,039 posts)but that is my concern the minute they start talking about 4 day work week, creates more part time no benefit jobs, people will need to work more than one job.
Blue Owl
(50,291 posts)n/t
Azathoth
(4,607 posts)Just having a morning to catch up on sleep halfway through the week would mean a lot to many people.
tulipsandroses
(5,122 posts)Its been a hard transition since I became a nurse practitioner working in an outpatient clinic and having to work 5 days a week.
I got a whole lot done in 3 days. Definitely had more energy even though I worked 12-16 hr days.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)4 days on, 3 days off then rotate to 3 days on, 4 days off the next week. I believe they work 12-13 hours each day when they are on.
tulipsandroses
(5,122 posts)Work weekends -36 hrs and get paid for 40.
JI7
(89,241 posts)based on what I have heard from them. They prefer working fewer days but longer hours and having more days off.
sheshe2
(83,669 posts)Golden Raisin
(4,605 posts)said I'd be happy to work longer hours for 4 days in order to have 3-day weekends.
TexasTowelie
(111,982 posts)I would stay out of town on my weekends and paid to sleep at my friend's home the three days that I was in town. I was actually more productive with that schedule, but even though I drove 90 miles to work on Monday morning, for some reason the eight ladies that I worked with frequently didn't make it to work on time, I often ended up being the only employee in my department at work until 10 or later in the morning and I would have to answer all of the phone calls with the varying reasons why they couldn't show up.
appalachiablue
(41,105 posts)days a week with Mondays off. I worked extremely hard at the job and had time for some personal life.
House of Roberts
(5,167 posts)Middle of the afternoon on Thursday, the supervisor would stroll through checking due dates and work left to complete each project, and ask some people to work half a day on Friday, if there were enough to even open the shop on Friday. Friday was always overtime, so I never minded.
Initech
(100,043 posts)Being stuck at home with nothing to do because of this god forsaken virus, every day is literally the same. With nothing to do and nowhere to go, weekends are kind of meaningless anymore.
Don't get me wrong, I like this idea, but right now the pandemic rules all, and if we can't go out of our houses and into society, is there any point?
EllieBC
(2,990 posts)Not everyone is privileged to have a white collar job that allows telecommuting. So plenty of people have been out there working already.
Initech
(100,043 posts)I'm talking about doing things that we used to do, like take vacations. Go to parks. Go to sporting events and live concerts, things of that nature. Go out for a night of bar crawling or go to the movies.
It's not just a day off. We need to be able to leave the house and interact with other people. It keeps us going through the day and gives us an incentive to have a 3 day weekend.
With nothing to look forward to like this, it really sucks. And as I've said, a life lived on Zoom is not a life worth living. It's certainly not a life I want to live.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)force/enable needed and desirable changes by breaking stasis. This sounds like one of them.
Occurs that on top of the obvious benefits for people whose future work and leisure patterns would change, and big societal changes, it might have the additional benefit of helping to extend millions of jobs for a while as automation reduces the demand for "human capital stock." A flattening of the traumatic job disappearance wave.
EllieBC
(2,990 posts)3 day weekends are awesome. However it cant be 3,8 hour shifts or he would lose his extended benefits.
kevink077
(365 posts)4 - 10 hour days are way more productive ....
JI7
(89,241 posts)because a lot of people are mostly home these days.
brooklynite
(94,384 posts)dsc
(52,152 posts)and some places do that now. One of the things they are discussing with schools is to have an A day B day system where A's go to school MT and B's go RF while W if off for all with teachers using Wed as a work day to either shift to virtual for shift from virtual each week.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Seriously, If you have a job to do and you can get your work done in four days instead of five, that is your manager's call. If you are falling behind then maybe you need to put in the extra time.
I honestly feel that I am very efficient and productive during the first four days of the week and Friday is just kind of a joke anyway, so why not make it an optional day for those of us who are producing? I can't stand the concept of "face time". I think it's juvenile and authoritarian.
I work with a lot of people who spend half their day chit-chatting and screwing off, while others of us are working the entire time. If some of us can be productive in a shorter period of time, we should be rewarded with a shorter work week.
It should be up to the manager to decide if we are not measuring up to our goals and potential.
Nature Man
(869 posts)1. Control the physical body in space and time
2. Control the mind through threats of punishment.