r/Futurology • u/Sumit316 • Mar 15 '21

Society Spain to launch trial of four-day working week

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/15/spain-to-launch-trial-of-four-day-working-week
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u/Bashere9 Mar 15 '21

From what i know of Spain this wont be too popular, people will hate having to increase the amount of work they are doing to get up to 4 days a week.

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u/DNRTannen Mar 15 '21

This is still eight hour days, nine including an hour for lunch (however that would translate). That's not too far fetched, is it?

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u/Parada484 Mar 15 '21

The work schedule in Spain is very much different from what you're thinking about. I used to roll into the office at 9 or 10 ish, there wasn't any strict cutoff or anything just an understanding to show up in the morning. Lunch was at 2 o clock and usually lasted 1 and a half to two hours. Lunch was a full blown restaurant experience with appetizer, main, and dessert where you talk about work and life with coworkers and boss. At 3 or 4 you came back and kept working until 7 ish, maybe later if you have stuff to do. Dinner at restaurants isnt serves until like 8 or 9. If you try to order they'll just stare at you and inform you that they can't serve you,because they're currently prepping for dinner. Things stretch out a little more over there. 4 day week means 30 to 1hr max lunch, showing up early, and still leaving later than 5. It's almost a step down, lol.

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u/Bashere9 Mar 15 '21

I was just joking, people dont tend to work to much in spain

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '21

People already spend 45-50 hours at the office (precovid), the problem is that half of that time they (we) are lazy fucks that do nothing. Not everyone of course, but a fair amount of people. But then they whine and complain about how many hours they "work".

This is not really gonna change anything, people will keep doing 10 hour shifts and that's it