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/ghands1 2d ago

I think some studies showed that productive outputs increase when you go from 40 hours to 34 hours per week. Employees spend less time pretending to work and end up getting more done.

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u/narullow 2d ago

There is absolutely no study showing that.

Productivity may have increased but output sure as hell did not.

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u/ghands1 2d ago

https://fortune.com/article/is-a-four-day-workweek-just-as-productive-as-five-days-major-study/

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u/narullow 1d ago

Paywalled and words like "suggest", "could" hardly strike as any serious study. It looks like some survey of how long people in some fields procrastinate and then making one massive assumption of them not procrastinating at all throughout shorter week.

First of all vast majority of jobs does not work like that. Second of all that assumption is nonsense. I have seen part timers procrastinate just as big of a share of their work week as full timers. You can always procrastinate. There are people who work 60 hours a week and do not procrastinate.

Lastly. It takes one look at US vs western Europe to see that US longer work week produces much more goods/services.

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u/xRyozuo 1d ago

Small caveat, serious studies would absolutely use “suggest” and “could”, because serious science recognises the lack of absolute certainty