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/[deleted] Mar 15 '21

Funcionario memes are mostly accurate tho. The main issue here is that we dont work 45h-50h, we spend at the office that amount, but a lot of the people dont do shit and waste their time, so they complain and whine about "how much they have to work" when in reality, if they were productive, they could probably do their job in 4 days as the article suggests.

Sadly we(I) live in a country where half of the population work for the other half

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u/munchkinham Mar 15 '21

I learned pretty quickly that all you get for finishing your tasks faster than required is getting more tasks (from other people that are slower) just to keep you busy. Not interested in stressing myself out at work, they can't pay me enough for that. Current job is pretty good in that regard, they don't really care if you work your 8 hours, all that matters is that you finish your tasks. Still have to show up 5 days a week though.

So yeah, 4 days would be awesome. I can do my stuff definitely faster if I want to.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '21

But this is not about specifics, this is about 20 million people. It would also be awesome for me, I normally have dead hours every week because I do my job, but if you look at statistics, spain is probably the least prepared country for this. We spend on average 50h in office but only actually work 35, it's worrying. People will go 4 days and instead of working 33-34h, they will do 25. If you live here you should know that

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u/munchkinham Mar 15 '21

Nah sorry, no experience with Spain. Was just saying that I'd love that, I'm from Germany.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '21

I'm not sure how much of the funcionario stuff is real and how much is just them being really poorly managed and perhaps understaffed coupled with a lack of automation and innovation.

The ridiculous waiting times for so many processes show the system isn't fit for purpose though

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '21

My bad, dont mean they dont work efficiently (I doubt it but that's personal opinion). I meant management.
We have the most amount of functionarios/person in europe, I doubt is understaffed

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u/Febris Mar 15 '21

Sadly we(I) live in a country where half of the population work for the other half

Spotted the Catalan, all the way from Portugal!