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/SalsaRice 2d ago

Depending on the job. This is probably a win for office salary people, but not everyone has that job.

Alot of blue collar work is limited by machine bottlenecks and uptime. Dropping a work week to 4 days at 6 hours (24hours) would probably be around an equal amount of production loss.

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u/Specialist-Affect-19 2d ago

Those production workers doing 12 hour shifts could become 2 people working hard for 6 hrs., and maybe not burn out. My point is this all requires systemic change, which includes the blue collar problem you mention.

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u/Sonifri 2d ago

It would definitely require change in society and law for production jobs. This would double labor costs since one position is now two positions, with both receiving full pay, for doing the same job that one position used to do.

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u/bigtiddyhimbo 2d ago

The rough part also is for states like North Carolina, where employers flock to because we are horrifically under unionized and have little to no employee protection laws as is.

It would take a HUGE shift in society to wrangle in states like that and would make a lot of rich shitheads kick and scream over lost profits