Experiments with a shorter workweek have shown that working fewer hours improves worker well-being and productivity. But we can’t expect employers to implement this transformative change of their own volition.
The four-day work week movement presumes that wages will increase so that life remains affordable. Mind you this was before the current era in which life isn’t affordable on a forty-hour workweek.
Hopefully, when we collectively decide we’ve had enough, we’ll expand our distaste of slavery to cover all forms of bonded servitude.
Yes, but then they’ll only pay you for 4 days…and you’ll probably lose any benefits you had…and things will continue to get more expensive.
The four-day work week movement presumes that wages will increase so that life remains affordable. Mind you this was before the current era in which life isn’t affordable on a forty-hour workweek.
Hopefully, when we collectively decide we’ve had enough, we’ll expand our distaste of slavery to cover all forms of bonded servitude.