My husband implemented the four-day workweek (4 days / 10 hours) for his company in 2024 and it proves to be popular with the employees. I know there are many workweek variations, so I’m curious which one you’d prefer the most.
Software dev: 4 hours a day for 4 days.
I can up it to 6 hours but over that it’s just unproductive IMO.
Nice, I’m ops, I would’ve said the same!
4x8hours. If the place needs people on site 24/7, weekend warriors should do 3x8 hour days for the same weekly pay.
I have a 10-8-8-10 work week. 4 days on. 3 days off. I love it.
3-4 days fully remote would be ideal
workweek
It’s okay to write it with the hyphen still in-place. If you’re going for English, it’s correct to do so.
Do you write week-end, too? Week-day? Work-day? If you’re making that claim, I hope you’re sticking to archaic spelling completely!
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/workweek The dictionary writes it with no hyphen.
3-4 hours a day 5 days a week worked fine for me when I was working. Meeting hours mandatory and the rest flexible. Remote work. With on-site work short-hours-more-days is more problematic because you have to spend time getting there and getting home, choosing less days with more hours is an obvious optimization.
I find that 4 days with 8 hours don’t really cut my productivity. In fact, I am able to use 32 hours more effectively than 40.
Six day week, three days of work, three days off, no dedicated weekends.
You get more opportunities to hire more employees, there are no specific weekends with odd open hours, everyone has the time to go and deal with stuff like paperwork, doctors visits and other things you need.
Everyone gets more free time off, more people have jobs meaning they have money to do stuff and companies would earn more money since more people would spend it.
Normal 8-17 hours for work days.
Public holidays would still be a thing obviously.
Vacations as well naturally.
I’ve worked a schedule like this before (4 on/4 off) and while it’s nice at first, it wreaks havoc for long-term planning, since your schedule shifts from week to week.
Whenever I’d try to make plans with friends, I’d have to cancel 75% of the time, because I’d either be at work, or I’d have work the next day and I couldn’t be out late. Extrapolating my schedule didn’t really help anything; there’d be entire months at a time where I simply wouldn’t see my friends with normal 9-to-5s.
3- or 4-day work weeks are great, but they should be fixed in place on the workers’ end.
Why would your schedule shift from week to week?
My suggestion would be that the entire society worked like that, completely unrealistic, I know, but I think it would be a great way to work.
With our current calendar system, anything other than a 7-day schedule is going to shift from week to week. My schedule at that company was 8 days long, so it shifted ahead by one day each week. Your proposal would do the same, just in the opposite direction. Having employers stick to fixed schedules is a much easier ask than having the whole world change how we keep track of time.
Well, as I did note in my post, it would require the entire society to change, to get the benefits I am looking at, but as you accurately predict, society won’t change that fast.
However if it successfully was implemented shifting days would not matter.
I work a 9/80 currently (so 9 hours a day every Monday through Thursday and then alternating 8 hours every other Friday with a Friday off) and I have grown to love it so much I think I would have an extremely hard time taking a five day workweek job. I also think I would easily work for 10s if it were an option as a constant three day weekend would be wonderful.
I have done my own research on my productivity levels and found that I pretty much get nothing done on working Fridays anyhow, leading me to believe a 35 ish hour four day workweek would be more than sufficient to get everything I currently do done. That’s notwithstanding the fact that during each day I swing back and forth between high and low productivity too, so really something closer to like 25 hours a week of total work is accurate. So something like a certain minimum mandatory set of hours with flexible time to get your tasks done as others have suggested would be the ultimate solution.
I prefer 4 days 10 hours. Waking up, getting ready, and commuting are all so energy consuming and I’d rather not do that as much. I’m actually rested after 3 days off as opposed to 2. I wouldn’t be opposed to 3 days 12 hours.
I found 6 hours a day with flexible working times quite comfortable, working from home monday to friday. 10 hours would be way too long for me, can’t even really stay concentrated on work for 8 hours.
This! Wouldn’t complain about 6 hours and 4 work days tho:)
4 days a week, 4-6 hours per day. Having a third weekend day is wonderful, and it really helps with running errands and making appointments. And I have a hard time doing anything for more than 6 hours in a day tops. Unless I’m on my meds, I’ve got about 3 hours of focus before lunch and three after, and that’s it. Which isn’t much of a problem in my current role, where I usually have more time than I need. What I hate the most is the obligation to sit at my desk for 8 hours a day, every day, even when there’s nothing to do
Three twelves. I’m all for cramming a 40hr work week into 3 days. Same amount of work, and so you are going to be trashed those three days and a half a day after, but it’s 4 days off a week.
Allows for work life balance if it’s block scheduling. If you have a scheduler who throws 12hr shifts out all over the week though, it can destroy your life.
There’s a lot of a jobs that depend on other people, or significant concentration, or weather/sunlight where this isn’t at all feasible. Interesting answer though, I also thought along the same lines when I was in my 20s but now I would hate that schedule
80 HOURS?!
Jesus christ bro.That’s a hell of a typo. Corrected it.
The less, the better
Zero is ideal
“We don’t care when or how you work, just get your work done and be available for calls when needed.”
Easier said than done but there are a few positions where this sort of thing is possible.
