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Debate- 4 day work week in America
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<blockquote data-quote="SimplyMe" data-source="post: 77264238" data-attributes="member: 9588"><p>Why would a store be closed on Friday? Being on a 5-day work week, stores still manage to be open on weekends (typically stores stagger days off, with most days off some combination of Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday). Having a 4 day work week would not change that.</p><p></p><p>Nor does it hurt hourly workers, as they still are given a base of a 40-hour work week -- just with an extra day off. And I'm sure that some employers, that work with a minimum of staff and depend on customers working overtime to pick up the slack, will be more than happy to have a worker come in to work overtime on their day off.</p><p></p><p>Oddly, studies have found that people are more productive working 10 hour days, 4 days a week, rather than 8 hours over 5 days. Yes, they have to cover childcare for 2 extra hours a day, but they lose an entire day of childcare in exchange -- additionally losing a full day of commute time (which might be an hour or more per day for a young family)</p><p></p><p>As for pregnant women, that is a different discussion -- though it does highlight how the US has some of the worst benefits for pregnancy and child birth (and the weeks/month after child birth) of developed (first world, and even second world) nations.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SimplyMe, post: 77264238, member: 9588"] Why would a store be closed on Friday? Being on a 5-day work week, stores still manage to be open on weekends (typically stores stagger days off, with most days off some combination of Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday). Having a 4 day work week would not change that. Nor does it hurt hourly workers, as they still are given a base of a 40-hour work week -- just with an extra day off. And I'm sure that some employers, that work with a minimum of staff and depend on customers working overtime to pick up the slack, will be more than happy to have a worker come in to work overtime on their day off. Oddly, studies have found that people are more productive working 10 hour days, 4 days a week, rather than 8 hours over 5 days. Yes, they have to cover childcare for 2 extra hours a day, but they lose an entire day of childcare in exchange -- additionally losing a full day of commute time (which might be an hour or more per day for a young family) As for pregnant women, that is a different discussion -- though it does highlight how the US has some of the worst benefits for pregnancy and child birth (and the weeks/month after child birth) of developed (first world, and even second world) nations. [/QUOTE]
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