It’s so far past time we need to be looking at a 24 hour work week. It’s perfect for multiple reasons. It’s one day. It can be met multiple ways: two 12 hour shifts, three 8 hour shifts, or four 6 hour shifts. It reduces the work week to less than half of the week, so parents can juggle without paying childcare. And the most important reason: we’ll all get the same amount of work done. Corporations or businesses can just swap employees out to get a full week.
this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2026
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Corporations or businesses can just swap employees out to get a full week.
That's the part that confuses me the most. Politicians should be all over this! Think how employment would shoot up.
while your productivity is more important to the owner class than your well being (which dead last on their list of priorities), it still isn't as important as your obedience and abject submissiveness. they just don't care if you would do better work if there were less of it. they'd rather you be too stressed and exhausted to think about pursuing other jobs, let alone have any time for it
Of course they care about my well being …there are posters like everywhere telling me that they do.
If only you could sue your employer for false advertising.
Yes, so that you feel shame that you're stressed, so you don't talk to anyone else about it. It's both a control and cheap union busting tactic.
I do a three day work week. I still show up for 5 days though.
Yeah I'd say I Lemmy for about 16 hours a week
Well, why not. In my country 40% of the workforce works 32 hours or less. It's not always financially attractive to work full time, for instance if you have children at home you can combine part time work with your partner and avoid paying high childcare bills.
All those technical advances yet the workload ever increases.
If only people voted for it instead of "bUt BuT mIgRaNtS 😭😭😭". But the majority is too easily controlled by the wealthy...
In most places there's no four day workweek party. That's half the reason Western countries are in this mess.
Oh shit! This was on the ballot somewhere? Show me! Where was the 4-day work week anywhere on anyone's platform?
Cause it sounds like you fell for vague hope pushing. I think Sanders might've talked about the importance of that, but that's not an actual policy in any platform I've seen.
On Brazil we are fighting to get a week with four-day workweek, but a man can only dream...
!remindme 30 years
Yes, but then they'll only pay you for 4 days...and you'll probably lose any benefits you had...and things will continue to get more expensive.
The four-day work week movement presumes that wages will increase so that life remains affordable. Mind you this was before the current era in which life isn't affordable on a forty-hour workweek.
Hopefully, when we collectively decide we've had enough, we'll expand our distaste of slavery to cover all forms of bonded servitude.