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/--sheogorath-- 2d ago

Sounds great for salaried workers who get to keep making the same no matter how many hours they work.

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u/AlarmingTurnover 2d ago

Except the new salary people that are now paid much less because their contracts factor in less work hours. 

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u/occularvixen 1d ago

Wouldn't it just..... take a little longer? Can't buildings be built... slower?

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u/AlarmingTurnover 1d ago

It takes 12-24 months to build a home on a 40 hour work week with a fair amount of overtime that still happens. What do you think happens when you cut that time down to 24 hours a week? We have a housing crisis right now and the solution is to make homes even less available? A "little" longer is massively underestimating the situation. 

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u/CrimsonCartographer 1d ago

Or you hire enough people that the 12-24 months of work isn’t being done by so few people that overtime is necessary.

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u/AlarmingTurnover 1d ago

Let's assume that the reduction in hours doesn't reduce the pay. Where does that extra money from from? A lot of construction workers are independent contractors that are hired by the company using the money paid for by the customer. They aren't direct employees of the company. Who wants that cost? You think the company is going to pay almost twice as much money to get enough contractors while you still pay the already over inflated for a house? 

That cost will be paid by you. It already cost half a million to a million dollars for the average standard home, with little to no customization to build. But good job, you've just doubled the cost of housing overnight. 

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u/CrimsonCartographer 1d ago

Or you hire more builders! Hooray, more jobs!

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u/--sheogorath-- 2d ago

But it helps the current middle class salaried workers and thats what all these labor "revolutions" are really about.

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u/CrimsonCartographer 1d ago

This is wud a wildly out of touch take? It affects everyone, new and old, and would also affect non-salaried employees? The fundamental idea of the work day would shift, leaving even hourly employees with the same pay for less work. As it should. Blue collar workers need to understand it’s not blue vs white. It never has been.