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“Americans are too pussy to make this happen.”
-Ford worker upon hearing about the 5 day work week in 1925.
But for real, your attitude shouldn’t be negative towards the people who do the work.
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I remember reading that this program was only available to employees with young children, and they had to take a pay cut to take that extra day. If it’s voluntary, no one will take it.
In Germany it’s quiet common to work part time and you have the same employment benefits and legal standing as someone working full time, there is no discrimination like in the US.
So I willing reduced my working hours to 30 hours a week. I am working 75% and get 75% of a full time salary. I actually get the same vacation as someone working 100%, as vacation is based on number of days a week worked rather than hours. I am still working five days a week.
Since I don’t need the extra money, there’s no reason to work full time.
This is incredible. So much that it’s kinda hard to believe.
Yeah, as it sounds like you’re aware, if you’re not a full-time-company-person in the U.S, you’re basically expendable dirt here.
But we also have a majority of benefits tied to full-time employment. My wife and I live with family and both work part time…we both agree that jobs’ intrusion into peoples’ life space is a huge source of destroyed relationships and broken homes, depression, and plenty more social maladies.
It’s simply not worth it.
I would.
Reduce my cost of living so I could work an extra day less every week until my child is out of elementary school while keeping the same job with the same benefits.
Count me in.
Note: The article does state for couples with children until the child is out of elementary school. So you get to work 4 day work weeks for a significant chunk of your life, while keeping the same benefits, but you do have to obviously lower your costs of living to make it work…probably. Yeah, I’m in.
It’s career suicide to not be seen working as hard as everyone else in Japan. It’s a thing to not go home until the boss has left.
We’re too balls to do it too.
Japaneses workaholics: “Looking for 3-day a week jobs, Fri-Sat-Sun preferred.”
Yeah. The problem is in big part because of the workaholic culture. If employees can still elect to still take the 5 day workweek they will. They will be scorned by all of their coworkers if they don’t.
“But that guy’s taking a 7 day work week! You don’t want to be seen lagging behind, do you? NoooOooo…”
