Please implement 4-day work week / 32hrs/week. Americans are worn and exhausted. There needs to be an emphasis on work-life balance. Companies should employ enough workers that the work can get done in 32 hr/week or 4-days work week. Companies keep piling work on a single person that should be handled by 3-4 people. This will also allow more people to be employed and lessen the unemployed while allowing Americans a better quality of life.
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I think businesses would be much more flexible if people showed up on time for their scheduled shifts and performed at the level the amount of money they want to be paid deserves. I realize that bills are high, but the company I work for pays $19.50 an hour part time. It is deathly frustrating to find a cart pusher standing in the cart corral on their bloody phone. Or two of them just standing there for ten minutes talking while there’s a lot full of carts needing to be brought in. If they want better money and more respect from the company they work for, work hard enough to deserve it.
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The issue I see with this is that it could be like on Sundays where some places close. It hinders people trying to get things done.
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So, this one isn’t a bad idea. I’ve seen how some people in other countries work 4 days a week and here we don’t. People have stated, and I agree that Americans live to work not work to live. Along with a 4-day work week add in other great things such as maybe a minimum 12 weeks paid maternity/paternity leave. Another thing could be if we do have no choice but to work 5 days out of the week at least have like banks and post offices open for even just 3 hours on the weekend for those who can’t get to those type of chores during the week due to work.
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The only way we would get 4 day work week would be communism (no thanks) or a ton more state and federal holidays (lies)!
Basically, you have to get a financial (thieves) or government (currently thieves) job. Otherwise move to the place where there is a cool company that has 4 day work weeks. That is 26 days off a year.
I love to see young people react when they realize there are 12 federal holidays but 90% of employees in the US only get 6 max.
Religious holidays are the best way to implement mandatory holidays but sadly most Christian Americans aren’t active enough or traditional enough to demand holidays. My friends who are Muslim, Jewish or Indians all get more time off than the rest of the work place. I tried to tell my boss I wanted to do a pilgrimage to Holy Land and I would be back in a month, he laughed and said go back to work but my Muslism friend said he was going to a pilgrimage to Mecca every year for 1 month and he said cool thanks for letting me know we will make it work! Christians are just laughed at but Muslims traditions are respected. I say equal rights for all workers, the whole month of July off every year! However December would be nice also I like to ski!
If you want every Friday off the only way for sure way is to work for yourself!
Companies could choose which days would be off for the employee so as to minimize impact on business operations.
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Working for yourself is a good suggestion, however it takes money to make money.
the rich get richer. Part of uniting as a country is having compassion for your fellow Americans who are not business owners but slaves in the corporate gulags. they deserve quality of life too.
The government already mandates a 40hr work week which is why we see overtime pay after 40hrs, and we don’t live in a communistic society. If the government were to mandate a 32hr work week, working over that would still be possible, but overtime pay would be applied. There aren’t many U.S. companies that allow a 4 day work week, and it’s difficult to find especially in my field. Evidence shows that most work can be completed in 32hrs vs. 40hrs. Also lots of us young people don’t have the capital to start a business out of the gate. Starting my own business is a dream I am working toward, but decreasing the work week to four days a week would do significant good for the mental and physical health of society.
While this seems like a good idea, it’s not feasible for many companies. Very large international corporations maybe able to afford this, but there are number of business sectors that have a net revenue of less than 10% and often less than 5%. Forcing them to pay over time at 32 hours and have employees only work 4 days, when the organization is open for 12-16 hours a day to 24/7 would cause the business to remove perks like free breakfast at Hampton Inns or the ability to keep the facilities clean or just close down for good.
Europe already does that and when US companies go there they cant get any thing done because of the lack of work ethic, ie 3-4 day weeks and whole companies close for weeks and some a month. Close business on Sunday, let the US return to
a God worshiping society.
And time to take care of their health, see their doctors when needed, etc.
I love the idea of a 32 hour work week.
We should not mandate that it be “four days” though --give employers and employees the flexibility to decide how to spread out the 32 hours.
As a mom, I would have loved working 6 hours a day, five days a week, and then getting early to let the babysitter go home/pick up the kids after school. An 8 hour day forces you to have a babysitter (or the grandma) do a ten hour shift, because you have to add in your travel time and lunch time.
32 hour week bills are still controversial and unlikely to pass a GOP trifecta, but still worthy to keep pushing the discussion forward, to give it a try; I have seen a federal one and a state one in CA proposed but they never made it past a committee for an actual floor vote. Many businesses oppose the idea because it increases their over-head costs, forces them to accommodate more employees.
I have also suggested similar ideas, coupling paid family leave with an option to request 8 hours unpaid intermittent time off weekly for certain FMLA-eligible employees only. My proposal is also likely too liberal for Trump, too, but hey just throwing this out there, because I truly believe in it:
Federal Paid Maternal Leave, Unpaid Intermittent leave & College flexibility
My proposal actually offers 12 weeks paid maternal leave, with some family leave options for dads, AND the option of 8 hours unpaid weekly intermittent time off for BOTH parents.
Please consider voting on it?
Federal Paid Maternal Leave, Unpaid Intermittent leave & College flexibility
OMG YES! Say it again for the cheap seats! the jerks running corporations need to hear YOU!