Asklemmy

Super optimistic title there lol

I'm with Cowbee. I don't see this happening outside of a few mom and pop places that decide to do it on their own until "government" forces the change. Just look at the 3 letter jackasses freaking out about WFH.

Id rather kill Wednesday.

The 4 day work week likely won't be established as the standard until Socialism is achieved and the bourgeoisie overthrown, but when that happens it will depend on the job and sector, likely working with different shifts to maintain 24/7 production but with lower workload. Probably a move to a 30 hour work-week, like what PSL suggests.

Neither. I'd remove Wednesdays.

Middle of the week off day lets you get all your errands done with little annoyance from or waiting behind the public, so you get everything knocked out and have your weekends 100% for you.

More importantly, on a 4 day workweek with Wed/Weekend off, you NEVER work more than two consecutive days. Ever. It's fantastic.

Alternating Mondays and Fridays. This gets you alternating two day weekends and 4 day weekends

I used to work a compressed week and started taking Monday but eventually it moved to Friday. When I took Monday off I felt like I had to pay for it with the next four days, when I took Friday it was like I was being rewarded with an early weekend.

Wednesday!

SILENCE, PEASANT!

You will now work Saturday as well!

Part of me thinks Wednesday. I wouldn't be surprised to see flex schedules more common in a 4 day work week world

Wednesday. Why work for 4 days straight when you could take a break in the middle

I also vote Monday. Seems to be easier to get back to work after a Monday holiday vs a Friday holiday.

Crazy thought, but what if it differed by industry? Something like blue collar jobs get Monday off, white collar gets Friday off. That way office workers can for example more easily stay home to get their cable serviced and plumbers can more easily meet with a mortgage agent. Obviously because of overlap it's not perfect (office workers can't meet with mortgage agent, plumbers can't get their cable serviced), but there's a huge issue currently with people working 9-5 M-F being unable to access services that are also only available 9-5 M-F, so this would at least distribute things a little more. (This kind of thing already exists for some industries like restaurants, where W-Su workweeks are common)

realistically, if we move to a four-day world week it won't be the same four days for everyone

i will probably die of old age by the time we get a 4 day work week (im early 20s)

Friday only because Garfield would probably have to change to "I hate Tuesdays".

Wednesday. I've been doing that for years. It's nice because it feels relaxing and still part of the work week, so still productive.

I can usually swap it for a Monday or Friday with a week or so's notice, if I want to take a long weekend some time.

Also I get more public holidays than if I took Monday off.

I save up my vacation every year and take as many Wednesdays off as possible. I prefer the break in the middle of the week. It has done wonders for my mental health and my ability to get shit done while everyone else is busy.

UK majority of the bank holidays are on a Monday, so Fridays would be nice as otherwise you'd lose them and what would become long weekends now.

UK we are seeing a very slow shift to 4 day weeks for more privileged jobs, I work with two people who both have Fridays off as it's an actual thing you can apply for at my employer.

While the Tories stopped councils from offering 4 day weeks to employees, it's got to be coming back, further spreading its availability.

It should be mandatory to stagger it by lottery. That way there's only ~20% of people off on the same day and you can enjoy your day more. I hate going out on weekends because of all of the extra people who are out. Being off on weekdays is great for the most part.

Can we do half-days? I would like to take Wednesday afternoon off as well as Friday afternoon. Longer weekend with a little break in the week.

Those are the only two days you could have picked where it wouldn't make a difference. Either way you have 4 consecutive days of work followed by 3 free days.

Wednesday

I'm fighting for a 3-Day work week 20hrs and no more. It can be done.

Someone’s got a bad case of the Tuesdays.

My bet is, it'll be Saturday that goes, finally achieving a 6-day work week.

There's a lot of optimism in this thread, so if I may imagine Sophie kicking the dust instead of choosing..

Assuming such a thing did happen it'd only happen for a subset of the population, which would then be divided such that one group gets Monday and the other gets Friday while service workers get two more nights of labor.

If those 4 days also mean 12 hour days, than im not too sure if I'd want thay

I worked a couple 12 hour shifts before, and they left me even more miserably than work usually did

It makes no difference. With Mondays off, Tuesday becomes the new Monday. Fridays off means Thursday starts feeling like Friday.