1 day to recover from work.
1 day to relax.
1 days to get ready for work.
this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2025
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4 days work week (with the same pay) improves employee health, happiness and makes the company 20% more money than 5 days week.
But sure, it's some woke socialists idea.
It's 1 less day to enjoy the chains of capitalism. We can't have more moments for realization now can we?
How does it make the company 20% more money?
No clue. I got that number from articles about multiple pilot runs. Well, honestly, it depends; on the company structure and what they do. A minority of companies made a bit less. But on average in the range 10% to 20% more. Guesses are, because not much happens at friday anyway and employees are less tired on monday. 4 days workweek just seems to hit a better balance.
It's probably tnaked to a decrease in stupid preventable mistakes.
Most companies aren't able to count the costs of stupid preventable mistakes. 20% is the number I've seen, but it's low because of hard to measure factors.
The companies that do understand the costs of stupid preventable mistakes usually go in a "work life balance" binge to improve their own bottom line.
The idea being that you are more productive and more focused because you are more rested.
3x6 not 4x10
Gotta stagger them, though, because otherwise there's no one working at the places you're trying to run errands at.
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A 7a-1p | A 7a-1p | A 7a-1p | A 7a-1p | |||
| B 12p-6p | B 12p-6p | B 12p-6p | B 12p-6p | |||
| C 7a-1p | C 7a-1p | C 7a-1p | C 7a-1p | |||
| D 12p-6p | D 12p-6p | D 12p-6p | D 12p-6p |
This is what full time office-type work shifts should look like. Most other work could have a similar spread. There’s an overlap mid-day and mid-week. You’d only work A, B, C, or D shift in any given week, and it would be full time at 24 hours. Want overtime? Grab another shift.
I was working night shift when COVID lockdowns started, fucking everything was closed when I needed food.
Well, yeah, that's already what happens.
In most European countries you get 2-3 paid leave days each month, so it almost happens here that week could be considered four working days.
More in detail from Finland the law says that everyone must use two weeks from those in one go, once a year. Commonly people take four weeks summer and one week on winter.
Also when you are on vacation, you get 1.5x the salary for that month. It is called "returning from holiday money" (lomaltapaluuraha). It ensures that you want to go back to working after being free for a moment :). That is not in law, but every union has that written in the general working contract. All work places are unionized here.
And don't confuse sick days to paid leave. If you are sick those never use vacation days. If you get sick on vacation, it doesn't use your vacation days, because you are then on sick leave.
I haven’t taken a vacation in years.
I take PTO to run errands, and do maintenance things I can’t do during the weekend with a toddler in tow.
A day off in the middle of the week sounds best to complement the Saturday/Sunday weekend. I’ve thought of doing this if my business ever takes off and I have employees.
Wouldn’t it be nice to take a break in the middle of the week? Just to have Wednesday off to be able to take a breather and rest and then come back for the next two days?
I often feel like I need that some months and just randomly take a Wednesday and it helps a ton.
Granted, the fact that other people are working helps. Both in knowing people realize my usefulness as they experience my absence and others out and about who are they for me to enjoy that day (restaurants, movie theaters, etc.)
"Don't push on the prod on friday but also be careful during tuesdays too."
I work a 4/3 schedule, it's great!
I did 4-on / 3-off 12s for a few years. It was close to 14 hours once the commute was factored in. The weekends were great, but I was a fucking zombie during the work week. No downtime between shifts other than eating and sleeping sucked.
I'm 10's and live 10 minutes away so it's nowhere near as bad, but I can understand that for sure.
I'm extremely happy with my current FT schedule... Mon-Thr 0600-1630 (half hour lunch paid!). So, I do have this 3 days weekend 😁
Social activities for me often lead to a day on the fainting couch
Grandpa Joe?
Saint Monday is the tradition of absenteeism on a Monday.[where?] Saint Tuesday is the less common extension of this to a Tuesday.[1] The tradition of taking Monday off has been common among craft workers since at least the seventeenth century,[2] when the workweek ran from Monday to Saturday as had been the custom and expectation for centuries.