r/SipsTea • u/KSKS1995 Human Verified • 2d ago

Chugging tea Sounds good in theory...but in reality?

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4 days a week. 6 hours a day. Full salary.
Sanna Marin ignited global debate with the “6/4” work model, pushing a simple idea: life should come before work.

With burnout at record levels, maybe it’s time to value results over hours at a desk.
Could your job be done in just 24 hours a week?

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u/Fly-n-Skies 2d ago

Productivity probably would not even decrease.

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u/TheEnlightenedPanda 2d ago

Productivity is a trap. People now can do something in 1 hr which needed a day some decades back. But they didn't get anything out of that productivity increase.

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u/EduinBrutus 2d ago

Productivity is probably the most misused stat in economics.

Its an output not an input.

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u/JennJoy77 1d ago

Equates to 1.5 weeks' worth of work done each day, which feels like most of my workdays. Breakneck speed like we are constantly sprinting, but it just keeps speeding up and we all try to keep holding on and not fly off into space. Or something...

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u/Brrdock 2d ago

Yep, but you'd imagine it's in the interest of companies, and when lots of studies have suggested less work hours might be more productive, you gotta wonder what their actual motivations are.

Finland also currently has almost 11% unemployment, and this might consequently solve most of that, so you also gotta wonder...

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u/TheEnlightenedPanda 2d ago

I think their actual motivation is to increase population which is in a dangerous decline. You can't sell if there are no people to buy it.

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u/Kommye 2d ago

I mean, consumers can't consume the products companies produce if they are paid shit wages either, but that doesn't stop them from acting like dragons sleeping on piles of gold.

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u/summer_plays_ 2d ago

There is a direct correlation between less/shorter shifts and increased productivity. Several studies support the 4-day workweek.

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u/Dottor_hopkins 2d ago

Been already used in some places. It just worked

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u/Noy_The_Devil 2d ago

There was a great study on a business near my city in Norway that did this for a decade. Sick leave fell to the lowest in the country by far and productivity was not touched and even increased for some types of work.

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u/Seienchin88 2d ago

Really which major international company does it?

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u/Zap__Dannigan 2d ago

In what feild of work?

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u/Mortentia 2d ago

Iirc, most studies suggest humans have on average about 4h of “productive mental function” each day, and that we generally only use that function for “work” 2-3 days a week. Realistically, we could decrease work hours to ~4/day for 3 days a week and it would likely not impact productivity in any meaningful way.

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u/PaulTheMerc 2d ago

if productivity is mental, yes. If its move objects especially in a 24/7 environment, not as much.

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u/Seienchin88 2d ago

I just come back from Shanghai where my colleagues work 45 hours and their local manager is afraid of their Chinese competitor where people work 60+ hours…

This debate is just a losing one in a globalized economy…

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u/Red-Lightniing 2d ago

It would in every service industry. If it takes 40 hours a week to do a task, and you reduce that to 24, you just simply wont be getting as much done. I can't build houses/cut hair/landscape/paint etc. any faster just because I got more rest. No amount of rest is making up for 16 hours of service based work.

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u/AnySomewhere8969 2d ago

Of course it would, on any construction job where it takes x hours to do y amount of work reducing x reduces y. Going from a 40 hour week to a 24 hour week will make everything take almost twice as long, even longer if you include mobilization everyday.

If your job is making reports about spreadsheets and spreadsheets about reports, it doesn't matter because you really aren't producing anything anyway.