A hundred UK companies sign up for four-day week with no loss of pay
I expect to be downvoted for saying this, as some people are really precious about the idea of 4-day work week, but I really struggle to understand how working fewer hours will not result in loss of productivity. If for some reason it is true that working 4 days a week results in the same amount of productivity, then why are 3 days a week not even more productive? Or 2? This is obviously reductio ad absurdum but that would mean that people who work 0 hours are the most productive ones.<p>I know that there is the argument about &quot;if I have fewer hours they will be more focused&quot;, but that to me sounds like it&#x27;s entirely wishful thinking and in a few years will be having the same amount of wasted hours in those days too, as people start thinking of Thursday as the new Friday.<p>I assume there is some sort of middle ground between working too much and working too little. Are there any actual evidence that that optimum middle ground is 4 days and not 3, or 5?<p>I would find the whole idea much more palatable if it wasn&#x27;t sold by claiming something likely isn&#x27;t true (people working fewer hours do more work), and instead someone was honest and admitted that this is a political project.<p>What I find much more interesting is switching from a 7 day week to something else entirely, for example working on: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday is free, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday is free. I can see how that might result in people being more productive, as they still work the same amount of hours, but they don&#x27;t get as exhausted as before.