Many Have Been Given A Zero Day Work Week

4 Day Work Week? Dick Smythe

Most people work forty hours a week. Despite exceptions both ways, forty hours is the norm. Five eight hour days.

How about a four day week....forty hours in four ten hour days...a three day weekend every week.

There’s a move in that direction already in the US. The state of Utah has its employees on a four day week with Friday off. There are some other scattered experiments.

It saves energy, not only in less travel but in offices that are shut down a full extra day.

So what’s an extra two hours a day? Nothing really. But an extra one day a week!!!. That is something.

Actually the worker on such a schedule actually comes out ahead in some cases. I’m thinking of somebody who has an hour commute each way. Or who pays bus or train fare. They gain two hours a week and they pay for one ...

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