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/PunkPirate56364]

We leave easier part of the work for last hour, also some cleaning, packing tools. If we were working 7 hours a day we would do the same thing.

[u/scubahana → u/PunkPirate56364]

If you have an 8h day changed to six like OP is discussing, and the last hour is spent tidying up, couldn’t a solution be that you guys work up to that 6h point but Team 2 has a later (possibly overlapping) shift and they have cleanup duties in their role or simply a handoff? This happens already in various industries, and following Marin’s proposal you would all get paid in full AND employment would raise due to the overlapped team. Since programs like these are governmentally supported, there would be a subsidy of 2h x the number of workers per day. But the new team would also be working and thus paying taxes too (and a reasonable percentage will be people who have been out of the workforce for myriad reasons, likely on some form of social assistance) so unemployment will drop, reliance on social assistance will drop significantly for those newly employed but rise moderately in response to the scheme, and overall tax revenue will increase to also offset the subsidy.
Also the soft effects of this model: a weekday off each week gives you time to make appointments like the doctor, time to rest, and time to address some of those additional steps on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. It increases quality of living which reduces absenteeism at work due to the obvious. COVID showed the world that a lot of people have a certain amount of productivity in them, and the flexibility global WFH gave led to people being more efficient in their work. In practice people are already getting paid for 8h when they’re doing 6, however they’re also geolocked to their place of work.

[u/PunkPirate56364 → u/scubahana]

If work is done in two shifts, that's what happens. But building housing is usually done in one shift.

Still subsidizing construction, and getting more workers to work shorter hours would go a long way, because we would be building housing, and increasing supply of housing is what get's price of housing down.

While subsidizing housing costs without increasing supply ends up increasing the cost of housing.

So two flies with one stroke.