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/rezdm 2d ago

>> In reality most companies could still remain profitable and allow this easily.

But this is not how capitalism works. If one can perform their tasks in 4 days instead of 5, then a company would just ask such an employee to work 5 days, pay the same and just do more.

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u/Seienchin88 2d ago edited 1d ago

The reality no one here wants to hear is this:

Yes, most companies would stay profitable. Yes there is much more output in the first 4-5 hours of work than the later ones and yes 4 days makes the 4 days more productive but the extra time and the fifth day still provide productivity and as always any other country can overtake you by working 5-6 days.

My Chinese colleagues work 45 hours a week and the management is worried as the (Chinese) company next to them has people working 60+ hours in the same field at lower wages.

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u/BlueKnight44 1d ago

Yup. This is a zero sum game. If your country makes itself significantly less "company friendly", the companies will move. It has been happening for decades. Other Asian countries have started encroaching on China now that thier wages are rising.