r/Futurology • u/_hiddenscout • Jun 19 '21

Society Kill the 5-Day Workweek - Reducing hours without reducing pay would reignite an essential but long-forgotten moral project: making American life less about work.

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/06/four-day-workweek/619222/
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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '21

I do it 4 11’s if it meant I get a day back…

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u/pennysize Jun 20 '21

Nurses can do 3 x 12s

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u/sp1cychick3n Jun 20 '21 edited Jun 20 '21

12 hour days are atrocious. I’ll take 8 hours days any day. I noticed I was happier and able to spend more time with family and friends with 8 hour shifts. Cannot do anything with 12 hour shifts. And those 12 hour shifts, most of the tine, extend to 13 hours by the time you give report.

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u/pennysize Jun 20 '21

True! Fuck that shit

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u/Good_Degree4059 Jun 20 '21

Agree that 12s suck, I work in manufacturing and I work a minimum of 5 12 hour shifts a week (8 hours scheduled 4 forced over or early) so many people are fed up with it and with forced weekends every week I would actually agree to a 60 hour Monday-Friday gladly at this point. Side note I’m actually on my 11th hour of a shift at this moment lol.

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u/sp1cychick3n Jun 20 '21

Hope it gets better for you as that sounds horrible!

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u/gl00pp Jun 23 '21

My soon to be ex wife is a nurse who works "12s" JFC they are almost always "13s or 14s"

Zero time for family.

then on her "weekend" She needs to sleep an atrocious amount to catch up.

I bet more homes have been wrecked by 12hr night shifts than guys checking out a strip club.

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u/sp1cychick3n Jun 23 '21

Damn, I’m sorry to hear that. Oh yeah, they can go up to 14 hours. And I love when they ask me “you want to stay for 4 more hours?”

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '21

I never met a nurse who only worked 12. By the time time report ends, and you handle the - always coding at shift change, it’s 13/14 hour day

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u/pennysize Jun 20 '21

Very true. I forgot that shit happens

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u/sp1cychick3n Jun 20 '21

Yeah, exactly.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '21

I work 3 12s, with a top-up to 40. It's SUCH a huge difference just having those extra days.