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Wednesday. Why work for 4 days straight when you could take a break in the middle

Super optimistic title there lol

I'm with Cowbee. I don't see this happening outside of a few mom and pop places that decide to do it on their own until "government" forces the change. Just look at the 3 letter jackasses freaking out about WFH.

Id rather kill Wednesday.

Friday only because Garfield would probably have to change to "I hate Tuesdays".

It should be mandatory to stagger it by lottery. That way there's only ~20% of people off on the same day and you can enjoy your day more. I hate going out on weekends because of all of the extra people who are out. Being off on weekdays is great for the most part.

Neither. I'd remove Wednesdays.

Middle of the week off day lets you get all your errands done with little annoyance from or waiting behind the public, so you get everything knocked out and have your weekends 100% for you.

More importantly, on a 4 day workweek with Wed/Weekend off, you NEVER work more than two consecutive days. Ever. It's fantastic.

The 4 day work week likely won't be established as the standard until Socialism is achieved and the bourgeoisie overthrown, but when that happens it will depend on the job and sector, likely working with different shifts to maintain 24/7 production but with lower workload. Probably a move to a 30 hour work-week, like what PSL suggests.

Wednesday. I've been doing that for years. It's nice because it feels relaxing and still part of the work week, so still productive.

I can usually swap it for a Monday or Friday with a week or so's notice, if I want to take a long weekend some time.

Also I get more public holidays than if I took Monday off.

I used to work a compressed week and started taking Monday but eventually it moved to Friday. When I took Monday off I felt like I had to pay for it with the next four days, when I took Friday it was like I was being rewarded with an early weekend.

SILENCE, PEASANT!

You will now work Saturday as well!

Alternating Mondays and Fridays. This gets you alternating two day weekends and 4 day weekends

Crazy thought, but what if it differed by industry? Something like blue collar jobs get Monday off, white collar gets Friday off. That way office workers can for example more easily stay home to get their cable serviced and plumbers can more easily meet with a mortgage agent. Obviously because of overlap it's not perfect (office workers can't meet with mortgage agent, plumbers can't get their cable serviced), but there's a huge issue currently with people working 9-5 M-F being unable to access services that are also only available 9-5 M-F, so this would at least distribute things a little more. (This kind of thing already exists for some industries like restaurants, where W-Su workweeks are common)

Wednesday!

Part of me thinks Wednesday. I wouldn't be surprised to see flex schedules more common in a 4 day work week world

i will probably die of old age by the time we get a 4 day work week (im early 20s)

I have a 4-day work week (32h - fridays off). The 3-day weekend is a game changer.

I'm fighting for a 3-Day work week 20hrs and no more. It can be done.

I save up my vacation every year and take as many Wednesdays off as possible. I prefer the break in the middle of the week. It has done wonders for my mental health and my ability to get shit done while everyone else is busy.

I also vote Monday. Seems to be easier to get back to work after a Monday holiday vs a Friday holiday.

I had both for a while. And somehow Monday's still felt a bit like Monday. So I would go with Friday.

realistically, if we move to a four-day world week it won't be the same four days for everyone

UK majority of the bank holidays are on a Monday, so Fridays would be nice as otherwise you'd lose them and what would become long weekends now.

UK we are seeing a very slow shift to 4 day weeks for more privileged jobs, I work with two people who both have Fridays off as it's an actual thing you can apply for at my employer.

While the Tories stopped councils from offering 4 day weeks to employees, it's got to be coming back, further spreading its availability.

Friday because it's already mostly a write off.

Can we do half-days? I would like to take Wednesday afternoon off as well as Friday afternoon. Longer weekend with a little break in the week.

There's a lot of optimism in this thread, so if I may imagine Sophie kicking the dust instead of choosing..

Assuming such a thing did happen it'd only happen for a subset of the population, which would then be divided such that one group gets Monday and the other gets Friday while service workers get two more nights of labor.

It makes no difference. With Mondays off, Tuesday becomes the new Monday. Fridays off means Thursday starts feeling like Friday.

I have a 4 day work week and love it.

So I work annualised hours, based on a 35hr work week. So summer hour are Mon thru Fri 41hrs total, winter is Mon thru Thurs 31hrs total. I actually like the setup, as a mason I'd actually not mind doing longer hours than we are in the summer and even shorter in the winter, as the weather is too shit in the winter to actually get anything done anyway.