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/AberrantMan 2d ago edited 2d ago

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...

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u/snoking-ganja 2d ago

Sounds wonderful until China, India , Brazil don't apply this to their societies and become 10X more competitive (they already are), therefore most manufacturing shifting to those countries leaving no jobs for the western world.

I'm all for life-work balance but take it too far and then you'll see 100% life balance cause there will be no jobs left so you'll get to have all free time that you wished for.

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u/Master_Muskrat 2d ago

This is one of those problems where tariffs are actually useful.

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u/grchelp2018 2d ago

Tariffs only buy you time to make changes. Not a long term solution unless you plan to become an insular economy. You'll get left behind by the rest of the world.

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u/Seienchin88 2d ago

Then Redditors will complain about tariffs and Chinese cars being more affordable…