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re: When will the U.S. ever wise up and go to a 4-day work week?
Posted on 6/15/23 at 11:26 am to grizzlylongcut
Posted on 6/15/23 at 11:26 am to grizzlylongcut
There are some professions where being available 5 days (or more) is such a competitive advantage that it's unlikely to happen.
I work in sales and would take a call at any time of the week en route to closing a deal. Imagine a plumber or electrician or veterinarian just fricking off on Fridays when people need them. Certainly several positions that work on very long term projects (engineers, for example) could do this, but there are lot of jobs that require immediacy for which it makes no sense.
Not even to mention all the service workers who are just shafted in this utopia.
I work in sales and would take a call at any time of the week en route to closing a deal. Imagine a plumber or electrician or veterinarian just fricking off on Fridays when people need them. Certainly several positions that work on very long term projects (engineers, for example) could do this, but there are lot of jobs that require immediacy for which it makes no sense.
Not even to mention all the service workers who are just shafted in this utopia.
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Posted on 6/15/23 at 11:28 am to Thundercles
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There are some professions where being available 5 days (or more) is such a competitive advantage that it's unlikely to happen. I work in sales and would take a call at any time of the week en route to closing a deal. Imagine a plumber or electrician or veterinarian just fricking off on Fridays when people need them. Certainly several positions that work on very long term projects (engineers, for example) could do this, but there are lot of jobs that require immediacy for which it makes no sense. Not even to mention all the service workers who are just shafted in this utopia.
As long as it’s not 100% commission sales, it all circles back to 4 day revolving schedule vs. pure 4 days closed 3. My job will never adopt 4 day weeks because of competition but to have a Monday/Friday off rotation within departments would work fine.
Posted on 6/15/23 at 11:31 am to Thundercles
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I work in sales and would take a call at any time of the week en route to closing a deal. Imagine a plumber or electrician or veterinarian just fricking off on Fridays when people need them. Certainly several positions that work on very long term projects (engineers, for example) could do this, but there are lot of jobs that require immediacy for which it makes no sense.
Not even to mention all the service workers who are just shafted in this utopia.
Vets, electricians, plumbers, etc are all typically small businesses and have people on call. Service workers already may have to work 7 days a week so I’m not sure how it’d be any different for them.
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I work in sales and would take a call at any time of the week en route to closing a deal.
I do too. However there is a difference between taking a call and being physically at work, would you not agree?
Posted on 6/15/23 at 3:57 pm to Thundercles
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Not even to mention all the service workers who are just shafted in this utopia.
Are they really anymore “shafted” than they are now with most non service workers doing 5 days a week?
Btw they aren’t shafted at all and you’re probably a communist if you think they are.
Posted on 6/15/23 at 8:40 pm to Thundercles
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I work in sales and would take a call at any time of the week en route to closing a deal.
Meh, if you work in sales, you work when your customers work. If none of your customers work Fridays then there probably aren’t a whole hell of a lot of calls coming in right? (Assuming b2b of course.)
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