4 day work week

people need more time to relax and do what makes them happy.

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[anderson4646]

so you want to take more time off when the country is bankrupt? good idea

[SecularTalk]

@anderson4646 You're right lets work 7.

[tclhoneyabby]

I agree with you. We all need more time to relax and enjoy life. We are trying to get stores closed down on Sundays to give families that break that they need. Currently all stores are open seven days a week. Retail workers can only dream about a four day work week. Good job and good video. Visit our channel for more on Sunday shopping

[SecularTalk]

@ehud12sc. Or we could cut the military budget in half end the drug war & pork spending and increase taxes on the rich for that.

[ehud12sc]

@SecularTalk Honestly, no. I am lucky enough to enjoy my job. Also, the amount of reduced productivity we will get by having another day off will only increase the budget deficit were are experiencing. As much as I hate Mondays, I view them as necessary evils.

[SecularTalk]

@ehud12sc Of course it is. But you wouldn't be in favor of a 3 day weekend?

[ehud12sc]

@SecularTalk it's not. I just think it's important to keep in mind how good 2 day weekends are. I used to live in a place where you get a one day weekend, and, once I came to the states, every weekend felt like a mini holiday. It's a matter of perspective.

[SecularTalk]

@ehud12sc forgive me i didn't know speaking is an entitlement.

[55ella2007k]

I completely agree. Time is very precious + you can't ever make up for it.  As far as salaried employees go (I am one of those), it makes a tremendous difference in your stress levels. We switched to a 4 day work week 9 years ago. Not every business can do this, but in ours it was possible. Granted, on those 4 days, we work 10-12 hours per day, so it's still full time work. But you wouldn't believe the reduction in stress having 3 days off.

[ncwdane]

we coulda did that when a weeks of work for say a carpenter would pay the mortgage on the very house he was building, but since the bankers have fadangled thing in their favor so the carpenter has to work three weeks just to pay the interest on that very same house to the paper schufflers(bankers, & another week to get something on the principle, it makes it very difficult, cause now even the wife has to work too