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.
It’s so far past time we need to be looking at a 24 hour work week. It’s perfect for multiple reasons. It’s one day. It can be met multiple ways: two 12 hour shifts, three 8 hour shifts, or four 6 hour shifts. It reduces the work week to less than half of the week, so parents can juggle without paying childcare. And the most important reason: we’ll all get the same amount of work done. Corporations or businesses can just swap employees out to get a full week.
It’s so far past time we need to be looking at a 24 hour work week. It’s perfect for multiple reasons. It’s one day. It can be met multiple ways: two 12 hour shifts, three 8 hour shifts, or four 6 hour shifts. It reduces the work week to less than half of the week, so parents can juggle without paying childcare. And the most important reason: we’ll all get the same amount of work done. Corporations or businesses can just swap employees out to get a full week.
That’s the part that confuses me the most. Politicians should be all over this! Think how employment would shoot up.