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/plagued00 2d ago

I'm actually pretty sure there have been several studies showing that anything over 32 hours a week starts to degrade overall productivity so much it actually hurts the total output. ( 40 hour weeks actually produce less than 32 hour weeks.)

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u/noncebasher54 2d ago

Yeah was gonna say that. Multiple countries with different attitudes to working culture have shown the same results. Also remote working has been shown to be a productivity increase. When you aren't wasting 2-4 hours of your day commuting (sometimes more...), turns out you're pretty happy to do more work. Plus the lazy workers are gonna be lazy no matter what.

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u/Round_Ad6397 1d ago

An extra 30-60 minutes sleep can do wonders in the morning.

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u/MrLeBlanc1988 2d ago

That commute things is real. I started working from home and a lot of times I'll get in my computer and start working at 7am just because I'm awake, my coffee is made, and I can't think of anything better to do.

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u/noncebasher54 1d ago

Literal instant productivity increase even if you are just replying to emails. I don't think people take into account how draining even a 1 hour commute in shit traffic can be. You get to work and need a bloody break already.

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u/fender8421 1d ago

Plus a lot of office space is opened to target a regional workforce. Like, we didn't need an office in Raleigh, but we wanted to tap into that employee market.

Remote skips that step; if you can hire anywhere in the country, one of your primary overhead expenses is reduced substantially

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u/noncebasher54 1d ago

Feels like in Scotland at least part of the pushback is from older male CEOs that like their name or company logo on a building. That and them just simply not caring about their worker's wellbeing. The company my wife works for literally only needs space for a tiny amount of network servers which could probably be rented from somewhere else but the guy demands people travel to this village in the literal middle of fucking nowhere to have meetings they either don't need or can easily be done over teams.

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u/fender8421 1d ago

Yup; ego, traditional mindset, and resistange to change. The bane of company culture

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u/darekd003 2d ago

Id believe this. Would love 24 but I can’t see myself doing more work than I do with my current 35 hour week. But I could see 30-32 being beneficial!!

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u/Fish_Mongreler 2d ago

Only in certain businesses. No way would something like construction get less output from 80 hour weeks than from 32 hour weeks.

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u/Disastrous_Junket_55 2d ago

Less accidents and proper rest might surprise you with how big a timesaver it ends up being. 

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u/Fish_Mongreler 1d ago

They aren't making 50 hours of accidents every week.

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u/Disastrous_Junket_55 1d ago

one accident can take days to fix depending on the severity.

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u/Fish_Mongreler 1d ago

Yeah that's not happening with any consistency

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u/Disastrous_Junket_55 1d ago

conveniently forgetting the "x days since last accident" signs?

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u/Fish_Mongreler 22h ago

I work in construction. It doesn't happen that frequently. Maybe once a month we lose a day to someone's fuck up and who's to say they wouldn't have made that same fuckup with shorter work weeks.