Billionaire suggests 3-day workweeks

[JBT]

My work is doing 9/80's where you work 9 hour days but every over week you take either Friday or Monday off.

 

[BoberFett]

For piece work or general operations type jobs (anything from janitor to datacenter monitoring) where it's the same tasks day in and day out, that could work. I worked in a factory straight out of high school doing alternating 3 and 4 twelve hour days. The long work days were a killer, but the long weekends were great.

Anything project based where people are heavily dependent on specific tasks being completed in a timely manner that would be a complete failure. I don't think you want your attorney working three days at a time. Professionals would still need to work 5+ days a week.

And it's stupid to suggest that it would require working until you're 75. How is that in any way related to the hours you work per week?

 

[BoberFett]

I'm glad for you, seriously. I have 12 hours day and am threatened if I take time to eat. I hit the floor due to hypoglycemia and no one from above ever called to check if I was alright. I expect (seriously) to die on the job. It's not my favorite place.

Damn. Don't know where you work but my sister finally told Walgreens to shove it last year, went to a hospital pharmacy. She's far happier now that she's working decent, predictable hours.

 

[smackababy]

I used to do 3 12s when I was temping at Dell. It was actually really sweet because they paid you for 40 hours, if you didn't take any days off. The only drawback was it was swing shift and on Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Even with that, it was good money and a decent gig. I would love to do this as a developer!

 

[Golgatha]

Yup. Not sure why anyone would willingly subject themselves to slavery. Loyalty to the company? They would lay you off in a heartbeat if they thought it would save them a nickel.

This. I'm ethical and put in a solid 40 hours each week, but unless there's an emergency or others in my team are on vacation and we need extra coverage (I'm a manager of a lab) to get the job done, anything over that 40 hours is charity to the company IMO.

 

[Ruptga]

And it's stupid to suggest that it would require working until you're 75. How is that in any way related to the hours you work per week?

Because he suggested a 33-hour work week, and many people are finding it impossible to retire at 65 even with a 40-50 hour work week?

 

[Imported]

I'd do a 3 or 4 day work schedule in a heartbeat.

 

[TheSiege]

I work 4 10 hour days, I love it. Sun - Wed 11am-930pm. I am on the waiting list to get the 7am - 530pm shift. But they pay my shift 5% extra so there is that...

 

[pontifex]

I already do 10 hours a day, 4 days a week.
I pretty much can't do anything those days anyway, so I would probably do 3x11 shifts.

but if you do that, its only 33 hours, not 40.

 

[alkemyst]

I'd prefer to see some Billionaires drink Hemlock and their money be given away.

And if you were ever to become one you'd be a threat to humanity.

 

[mztykal]

I'm salary, I also work around 50-60 hours a week regardless.

 

[Bateluer]

3 11hr back to back days? Screw that. You basically have no time to do anything else at all during your 'work week'. I've done 3 back to back 12s before, and its just brutal. Forcing that kind of shift for everyone for the very long haul, will have extremely adverse effects on both physical and mental health.

Nothing wrong with having flexible hours based on the requirements of the situation though.

 

[sze5003]

Being a developer there are times I need to stay for extra time under salary. I would rather be paid for it but I've done 10-12hr days before anyway.

Pay be a bit more and I would do it. I work more than 40hrs a week somwtimes anyway.

 

[highland145]

And if you were ever to become one you'd be a threat to humanity.

Let's get to Michael Moore status 1st....$50million and 9 houses. Not in the 99%.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I'm salary, I also work around 50-60 hours a week regardless.

Why?

 

[Sattern]

You can alter this and work 4 days a week until you are about 65 and have enough to retire or you can just work like everyone else and retire whenever you have sufficient funds and investments.

 

[zinfamous]

I'm salary. I work on average about 50 hours a week.

:hmm:

About 25 hours of that work week is spent neffing.

Only 50%?

pffft. amateur.