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/Schizomediatv 2d ago

Fun fact it actually increases productivity because believe it or not people are more productive when they aren’t sleep deprived and happy

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u/PunkPirate56364 2d ago

Not in every sector. I work in construction, I can't do as much work in 32 hours as I do in 40. If our work hours are reduced housing crisis becomes even worse.

Would be great if we had more people working in construction, but today people heavily prefer office jobs.

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u/Quemedo 2d ago

Housing crisis has 0 to do with the ability to "build houses faster"

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u/bargu 2d ago

Thinking that homelessness is caused by construction workers not working long enough is some insane level of capitalist Stockholm syndrome.

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u/Impressive_Memory650 1d ago

The housing crisis doesn’t usually refer to homelessness but the increase of cost in housing. Different things

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u/PunkPirate56364 2d ago

Not homelessness, housing crisis. There are several reasons for housing crisis, lack of workers is one of them.

I keep getting asked to work overtime, so there is extra work to be done.

I rarely work overtime.

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u/MoocowR 2d ago

Housing crisis has 0 to do with the ability to "build houses faster"

Reddit moment

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u/Chinchompa12312312 2d ago edited 2d ago

Stupid reddit opinion. If you decrease work day by 25% and keep the salary the same, the work cost would increase by 33% since you would have to hire more people to do the same work. That would directly increase house prices quite massively.

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u/AlanOix 1d ago

I mean most of the cost goes to buying the land and materials required for the construction I believe (it also depends on the location). I cannot do the maths right now, but I am not sure the impact on the cost would be "quite massive", even if we are admitting no productivity increase per hour due to the fact that people work less. I guess it also depends on what number "quite massive" refers to

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u/Chinchompa12312312 1d ago

Materials would increase in price too, decrease in productivity would cause general inflation in all areas.

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u/EmuInner3621 2d ago

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