4-Day Work Week

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Radbird
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4-Day Work Week

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Saw this on LinkedIn

To grow your company and make millions, start working four days a week

It's not just the shorter work week, but the other innovations (no internal email, no managers) that make me wish I worked at a place like this.

I guess this both a rave (great idea) and rant (doesn't apply to me). <<deep sigh>>

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Timothy Ferris 4 hour work week and hit home runs and lay pipe like Babe Ruth FTW

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In 1930, the Kellogg Company announced that most of its factories would shift towards 30 hour work weeks, from the usual 40. W.K. Kellogg stated that he did this so that an additional shift of workers would be employed in an effort to support people through the depression era. This practice remained until World War II, and continued briefly after the war, although some departments and factories remained locked into 30 hour work weeks until 1980.

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I always thought a place with a four hour work week would be awesome to work at. 3 day weekend every weekend. Every Monday would really be like Tuesday.

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sounds like someone has a case of the Tuesdays

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I would agree to no raise for like a 3 year period if it meant no manager and a 4 day work week. I would also work harder and smarter.

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I worked 10 hour days in the past and I would be really tired on Wednesday nights. I saw advantages of it a lot like playing golf on Fridays.

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I think a 4 day work week with a mandatory health and fitness friday would be a good idea--2 hours, starting at 8 am with the rest of the day off.

everyone is happy and healthy

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trill wrote:I would agree to no raise for like a 3 year period if it meant no manager and a 4 day work week. I would also work harder and smarter.
I don't know how I missed this thread before, but I agree with just about everything in this thread, especially if I'm still on the overnight shift. Give workers a chance to have real two normal days off with family & friends.

I only deal with a manager for maybe an hour total per work week, but I wouldn't mind seeing that number reduced even more.

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When I'm president I'm going to eliminate Wednesday. It's a useless, frustrating day. Then everybody's work week will be a 4 day week.

This idea is infallible.

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