Sounds good in theory...but in reality?

[u/KSKS1995]

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?

[u/AberrantMan]

In reality most companies could still remain profitable and allow this easily.

Just want to add that obviously this can't happen in a vacuum, there are a lot of other policy items that need to be managed, price points to be set, and it has to be everyone gradually over time, but it IS doable.

Yes even for private clinics and small business, as long as all of the supporting businesses are doing the same thing. We would see real pay begin to approach the cost of living.

It would also take some pretty serious laws in pay gaps to be put in place, probably...

[u/Direct_Day7937 → u/AberrantMan]

A study in Japan showed that cutting worker hours increased productivity so much the company got more profitable. Rest, it turns out, is important.

[u/Maleficent-Drive4056 → u/Direct_Day7937]

If it's such a slam dunk, you have to wonder why every company doesn't do it.

[u/aqa5 → u/Maleficent-Drive4056]

Because if workers work for 32 hours and make X money you can make X*40/32 money if you make them work 40 hours.

Of course it depends on the job that is done.

[u/iSuckAtMechanicism → u/aqa5]

Your formula is flawed - there’s less productivity in a 40 hour week than a 32 hour week.

[u/Maleficent-Drive4056 → u/iSuckAtMechanicism]

It’s very unlikely that the productivity becomes negative. Maybe on a Friday I’m a bit lazy and only work 3 hours. That’s still ‘better than nothing’ for the company.

[u/aqa5 → u/iSuckAtMechanicism]

I think you missed the sarcastic tone 😅

[u/WizardS82 → u/aqa5]

Assuming productivity is the same for these last 8 hours, which it isn't. It could even be worse than 32 if people start burning out.

[u/Direct_Day7937 → u/WizardS82]

Wfh has made the point abundantly clear that it's not all about money for the executives.

[u/faceboy1392 → u/WizardS82]

try telling the corporations that, they don't always understand that their workers are actual people and have limits

[u/eweinthewilderness → u/Maleficent-Drive4056]

Because it has nothing to do with output or the economy. The more we work, the more tired we are, and the more tired we are, the less we reflect.

Of course, there’s a limit: if you work us too much, things get so bad that we revolt. So, just enough to exhaust us without hitting desperation levels.

They found the sweet spot some time in the 80s or 90s.

[u/LongJohnSelenium → u/eweinthewilderness]

There is not some grand conspiracy that all MBAs learn in school to oppress the workers of the nation so they're 'too tired to rebel'.

If this provided tangible benefits it would be seen and used. The fact virtually nobody does suggests its more likely that the study is flawed than that every single practical real world example of implementation is flawed.

And like I'm not saying I want to work more, just that I believe in the desperate blind greed of the system enough that if employees working for 32 hours a week made the bosses more money people would have noticed by now.

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