3 day week for those over 40?

Dr House said:
I am trying to agree with my hospital they let me do 12h shifts 4 days a week in A&E, I like the idea of a 3 day weekend.
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Good luck with that! I couldn't think of anything worse than long day shifts in A&E. I can still remember how much I hated my 4 months in my emergency medicine job. I'll be looking to go part time after I finish my training. Would ideally like to do what my wife did. Working 3 days in a salaried post and locuming 1 or 2 sessions.
 
my sister managed to blag a 4 day week doing 10 hour days for the NHS... so she gets paid a full time wage still

I think it is quite a blag if you can pull something like that off as in plenty of other professional jobs no one is counting the hours you worked and working 4*10 hour days then taking a day off would usually involve losing a day of holiday
 
Doing 3 day weeks at the moment but that is eat, sleep, work, repeat think I preferred when we did 5 days with an early start and compressed working day on a Friday which effectively made it a 3 day weekend.

I think 4 day working week with the 4th day a compressed day would make society a much better place to live in.
 
shadow_boxer said:
Good luck with that! I couldn't think of anything worse than long day shifts in A&E. I can still remember how much I hated my 4 months in my emergency medicine job. I'll be looking to go part time after I finish my training. Would ideally like to do what my wife did. Working 3 days in a salaried post and locuming 1 or 2 sessions.
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LOL, I love it, I only hate the rota, I really enjoy being in A&E and the medical take.

They put me on each of these for 3 or 4 days then move me to the next:
8am to 6pm
12pm to 10 pm
2pm to midnight
4pm to 2am
10pm to 8am

I just can not have a social life or any sort of normal sleep pattern, they are so desperate for people willing to work in A&E most hospitals are willing to be flexible. I also only want to do 48h a week as at the moment some how they have me on way more than that and I'm not happy about it.
 
Clicked the link and then the first suggested article had the headline:
'Holistic doctor murdered after being close to discovering cure for cancer'; seems legit.
 
i do 3 days 3 off then 4 days 4 off ,so obviously my weekends are also 4 or 3 days suits me fine lots of beach time , could never do 5 in a row ,what a nightmare getting exited about bank holidays when that should be every week
 
Why just over 40's?
Also 3 days week for a normal 5 days pay, yes, sure.
Its already hard enough to live on minimum wage as it is.
 
Bug One said:
One way to make the over 40's unemployable.
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Haha, yep unless there is a paycut to go with this it ain't gonna happen.

It's just a part time job.

Expecting the private sector to do it out of the kindness of their own heart is delusional. Force them to do it and they will just lower salaries for over 40s applying for vacancies (or just not be hired). Those approaching 40 and already at the company will just stop getting payrises.

For the government to do it is just another way of screwing over taxpayers and younger state employees.

The study doesn't seem to suggest that employers should necessarily be forced to do it though.
 
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FurryLemon said:
These days 35-40 hours for the plebs and desk jockeys.

Anyone with actual skills 60+.
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This is a stupid remark, I'm a skilled worker, not many people in the uk can do what me and my team do and my hours are 38 hours a week, plus 30 hours a week overtime if I want it.

I also do 4 days a week doing 10 hour days.

Makes up for it though that I get paid £40 an hour.
 
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Admiral Huddy said:
I have thought about it dowie.. many times.. but i'm waiting for a maximum payout on my redundancy. The problem is the payout is based on leaving salary plus ny pension contributions made in that time so it's not financially viable. Another year hopefully..
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Yup, been there :)

Dr House said:
I am trying to agree with my hospital they let me do 12h shifts 4 days a week in A&E, I like the idea of a 3 day weekend.
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I used to do a compressed week when the kids were young, really helped out with child care costs.
 
Lol, who cares if someone is "skilled" or not. It's a stupid remark because unless someone genuinely enjoys their work, someone working 60+ hours probably has a horrible life. That pleb working just 35-40 hours at least has a life away from work.
 
our place wanted to move to 3 day shifts as 3 12 hours lets them get 4 shifts in a week and have a 6 day working week.


2 day shifts 2 nights shifts. Instead of just morning afternoons and nights

.union voted it down annoyingly only work 3 days and get paid more :(

would have been awesome
 
dowie said:
my sister managed to blag a 4 day week doing 10 hour days for the NHS... so she gets paid a full time wage still

I think it is quite a blag if you can pull something like that off as in plenty of other professional jobs no one is counting the hours you worked and working 4*10 hour days then taking a day off would usually involve losing a day of holiday
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this is why i do nights 4 x 8.75 hour shifts a week. monday to thursday
 
Tefal said:
would have been awesome
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I find it a bit of a mixed bag - work wanted to move my shifts around to something I couldn't do - but a part time person had just left so I was given the option of picking up their 3 days as well as doing my own shifts on those days back to back and they'd hire someone to replace the other 3 days of my shift instead - its pretty tiring.

I definitely think as a society we'd be much happier and healthier with a paradigm shift in working hours.
 
I do 40 hours on a 4 day week Monday to Thursday. Have done for the last 7 years
 
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