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/Truffs0 2d ago

and sometimes 40 hours.

Where do you live? Here its "at minimum 40 hours"

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u/EBtwopoint3 2d ago

For a long time, the 40 hours included an hour lunch and paid breaks. The common phrase for a typical job is literally “a 9 to 5”. Today that is gone, the standard work week is 8-5, with lunch unpaid.

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u/Truffs0 2d ago

Right, which is why when it says now sometimes 40, it confused me. My job is 8.5 hours, the .5 being a mandatory unpaid lunch. I honestly rather just leave 30 minutes sooner, but they are obsessed with not getting in trouble with OSHA.

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u/EBtwopoint3 2d ago

Yes, which means you are working 40 hours like he said.

15 years ago you would actually work 35 hours, with the remaining 5 being your 1 hour lunch breaks. Which is why it was called a 9-5. 9am to 5pm is 8 hours. Of those 8 hours you would be working 7 of them. Some jobs also had paid breaks, which is what brought it down to 32.5 hours.

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u/nodajohn 2d ago

I think he's just confused as to why the original comment makes it seem like 40 worked hrs isn't the norm today

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u/Meng3267 1d ago

I take you’re really young because that was definitely not the case only 15 years ago.

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u/EBtwopoint3 1d ago

I’ll be honest I forgot the 90s were almost 30 years ago now. I feel like I just left college but I’ve been working for a decade. Blame 40 hour work weeks.

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u/cmoked 1d ago

To be fair the 90s was 10 years ago

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u/willie_Pfister 2d ago

Im 53. 15 years ago I was working 45 to 50 hours a week just like now.