Ye Olde Boomer
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This is what wealthy civilised countries do.
To me, YOU have a civilized country! The US is the most socially regressive of all developed Western nations.
1 in 12 Adults have never worked.
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To me, YOU have a civilized country! The US is the most socially regressive of all developed Western nations.
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A firm in the uk Did something similar , 4 day weeks but without the 6 hours. They said people were happier and worked harder
It's not a case of who works that one day it's managing it correctly
You could completely shut the firm every Wednesday or Friday for example .. if the work is still done it doesn't cost to close the extra day
Or you stagger it so 20% of the work force has Monday off , Tuesday, wednesday , Thursday and Friday..
It's not a case of right everyone you work 4 days and Jeff you work every Friday ..
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Tashyboy
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problem is PJ, a few nurses went flexi retirement. When they went back, they were expected to do 5 days work in 3 days. They ended up finishing altogether.
Not saying it’s not a good idea, but it’s not for all.
I was being a bit glib, realistically you would stagger the week as you say. I believe it can work in certain lines of work but would be totally impractical in others, particularly when people are wanting the same salary. I don't believe that on the whole the UK has the type of economy that lends itself to this policy.
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It's something we as a country might have to start looking into to share the wealth around
Automation of many jobs will mean less people needed for excisting jobs. Putting more and more people out of work.
Maybe not something for my generation to worry about but my daughter's I'd say will face this
Automation is a great worry, I agree with you. The question is will everyone be happy to take a drop in salary to account for the extra staff a 4 day week will bring? Can you see many lining up for that? You can start a new company up working this way but changing existing contracts will be a tough sell.
Bunkermagnet
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My dad was saying the same thing back in the late 70's, early 80's....when we had manufacturing jobs.
robinthehood
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It does also open up opportunities, my job is becoming more and more automated, I'm just making sure it's me who picking up the new skills and doing the automating ?
Fade and Die
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Big concern automation...when google and Uber (or whoever) sort out the driverless car which will lead to the driverless van and trucks for 10s of millions of workers worldwide it will be a disaster.
Smart move ?. The key jobs in so many factories now are the person who programmes the equipment or perhaps more importantly fixes it when it breaks. The others are becoming superfluous.
I saw a Greg Wallace, In The Factory thingy before Christmas where he was at Rowntree's, the Kitkat factory. Once they had been packed in boxe a robotic fork lift picked up the pallet from the production area and took them to the warehouse. Another robotic fork lift put it onto a racking system until they were required for an order. At that point the robot picked out the pallet and loaded it onto a vehicle. No human was involved at all. The only human in the very large warehouse was the bloke on the gantry checking the computer screen to make sure all of the robots were working correctly. There was no one on the warehouse floor. A sad sight ?
Fade and Die
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Say no more LT we all know who you mean. ?
