Comments on: Why a Four Day Work Week Would be Good for America

By: misty

misty — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:28:31 +0000

I dont think some of the people leaving coments understand what the 4 day work week is. you still work your 40 hours (in theory) you just work 4 ten hour shifts instead of 5 eight hour shifts, giving you a three day weekend.

By: Tammy

Tammy — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:51:38 +0000

This is an excellent idea. The fact that other countries have all this extra time off makes me sad.I know that at my job I waste about three hours a day ( when fully staffed) taking breaks or reading. I would much rarther be at home. I hope that one day the powers that be will pass a law mandating a 4 day work week for all!

By: Cheap Roofer

Cheap Roofer — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:10:32 +0000

I agree with a 4 day workweek to save gas but I also would like to get paid overtime for anything past 8 hours….

I have given plenty with less benefits and my retirement plan being all but eliminated…

By: April

April — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:52:32 +0000

My opinion, I think working a 4day work is cool, no more 40hour work weeks and the pay should stay the same, meaning no more hourly wages. Wages should be set for employment type for example a clerical worker should be pulling in at least 35k yrly. I also think that paying social security should be an investment option, meaning you should be able to invest the money where you want, that’s what the government does with it, invest our social security monies we work so hard for. I also think that senior citizens should not have to pay taxes after thay have retired. what do you think?

By: Angelia Calhoun aka Cross

Angelia Calhoun aka Cross — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:47:31 +0000

I think the 4 day work week is an excellent way of making America a better Country and a place where people the economy and our natural resoures count. We have gotten to the place “where its all work and no play…makes jack a dull boy” that an acronym for STRESS. So I say lets form a coalition and make it happpen so we can save lives, health and the economy from one change in our country’s ritual.

By: Teecycle Tim

Teecycle Tim — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:32:18 +0000

I enjoy the zero day workweek. Getting laid off is awesome!

By: Bill Meeks

Bill Meeks — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:45:11 +0000

All of this going green/global warming nonsense is a crock of @&$!!!! People need to wake up and live your lives and let others live theirs. The idea that the ice caps are going to melt and flood the earth and that we could actually destroy the earth is totally absurd. A four day work week is a great idea if a business owner DECIDES to do that, no one needs to decide for him/her. There is nothing wrong with making wise decisions such as recycling, conserving resources, exercising, eating right, etc. but leave me the hell alone if I CHOOSE not to!!!!!!!!!

By: geo

geo — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:40:20 +0000

It depends who you ask. in your 20’s you don’t mind 8/5 because it gives you more time to party everynight and you don’t have to worry about getting up earlier. In your 30’s and even worse your 40’s raising kids and everything starts to hurt, your blood pressure rises, anxiety and stress from your party days start creeping on you, then those 4/10 sound real good.

so those of you in your 20’s keep your mouth shut for now and talk to the rest of us in about 20yrs when your metabolism reaches ours. and your realize that no matter how much you work your chances of becoming rich are slim to none.and the corp. that called itself a “FAMILY” , just so you can let your guard down, has abandoned your —.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:34:51 +0000

I don’t see a four day work week happening anytime in the near future. However there is hope for a 9/80 schedule. I currently work this schedule and it is great! Basically you work 9 hours a day, get three day weekends every other week, and the Friday you do work is an 8 hour shift. You don’t feel the extra hour and the long weekends are something to look forward to.

A lot of companies, especially in aerospace and technology, are using this schedule and I really think that it can easily makes it ways into other sectors of corporate America.

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:09:38 +0000

A four day work week should not be legislated; Wrather, a law that places the overtly aggressive super-achievers that want to work 24/7 in institutions, where they can stay high on caffeine, snort coke if they like and wreak general havoc on their own kind, ’till heart attacks, strokes and breakdowns make them sick. At this point they will forfeit most the higher wages they earned to pay for their own health care, and suffer a large fine to be given to the hockey coaches , teachers, pastors and child care specialists they owe a personal debt to. A tariff on every extra hour they work should be levied to compensate the society they did not contribute to while grandstanding, and a special sum should be set aside to be distributed among the perfectly capable people they displace while on their ego-rampage.
The Rambo style of trodding in bloody fashion on everything in your way to arrive at a single minded goal are dead, and for good reason. It doesn’t work well! Ask President Bush!
The super psyched Rah! Rah! Rah! Gung – Ho! bullshit has led America to producing SUVs in a world short of oil, gas prices so high we are trading downsize or selling our cars outright, a fleet of jet passenger planes we can’t afford to fly, super jet fighter planes worth billions that lose against turban topped philosopher-desert rats, a mess in Iraq, not even close to victory of any sort, the legacy of loss in Viet Nam, an over-stressed population of fat-assed video game players, and an economy hopelessly mired in corrupt debt. maybe, just Maybe, we should try another philosophy, and it might as well start with a four day work week!