Greece - 6 day working week

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Greece introduces ‘growth-oriented’ six-day working week

Pro-business government says measure is needed due to shrinking population and shortage of skilled workers

www.theguardian.com

Because people are emigrating and we're in trouble.. (correct) we are going to introduce a 6 day working week for private companies as an option for the company. (incorrect solution).


Expect this to backfire!

 

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I'd take the pay cut to work 4 days if I could.
Or even 4 long days. Just waste the evening anyway most of the time

 

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I did - moved jobs, big pay rise, upped pension payments and went to a four day week. Next promotion I'll drop to 3 then it will be retirement.

Its my next move. 4 days a week. 2 days off isn't enough really when have other life chores that take up time.

 

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I find 2 days off a week isn't really enough time to run a house properly by yourself.

Totally agree. One reasons have a cleaner. Just to give me a bit more of that 2 day weekend back

 

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Easy solution, find a tradwife.

Yeah this would be a solution to be fair. She'd have to work too though!

 

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If your loaded like yourself and can take a pay cut then that's great, but many wagie slaves simply can't afford to do that.

Definitely not loaded!.. According to the forum!
I know that's relative. But yes it's a huge benefit to get back time. That's the entire point of pay rises imo.

Most people think like that in terms of retiring earlier. But for me time now is better.

If I was given the choice. I'd probably take the 4 days and 35 hours.
Rather than 4 days and 30 hours.

But if take either vs 5 days

 

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I’d love to do my 37.5 in 4 instead of 5 days.

I do a lot of problem solving as part of my job (software developer) and would prefer the longer days to work on things then an extra full day to rest the old noggin.

Similar role.
I'd probably be more motivated too if this happened. An extra day is an insane amount of time to gain over a year.
Working 2 hours extra a day over the 4 days would be no issue when I WFH anyway.

 

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Yup

Brother in Law's work basically went to 4 day weeks last year, not through choice and the staff still work the same hours but because they run plastic forming equipment and someone in management finally realised that having 4 shifts covering 7 days and having something like a third of the machines sat idle but hot (they take a long time to warm up and have to be cleaned properly before they get cold) was costing them a fortune.
So they consolidated the 4 shifts into 2 and now run the machines for 4 days with much less downtime.

Apparently when the cost of energy started to go down some management started muttering about going back to the old pattern (slightly more resilience if a machine goes down) and was basically told to get lost as they could get jobs that paid nearly as well but with far better working conditions on 5 days a week.

It turns out the guys working there like having the extra day to take things easy so they go into the weekend actually able to enjoy it rather than exhausted, especially as they change shift every two weeks or so (swapping through 12 hours).

I need a career change!

 

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A friends consultancy business took part in a large trial in London to go down to 4 days a week. The staff were much happier and just as or even more productive so they've kept it going.
Apparently most of the companies that tried it have carried on with it.

Maybe should actually have a look and see if any of these jobs are available.

 

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They are actually 'in the office' though most of the time, not working from home.

Yeah I'd probably even give up WFH to have a day off. But would obviously have be local!

 

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All this 4 day a week talk. I'm going to see if I could get it too. From my perspective I don't see why not