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 "if I have fewer hours they will be more focused", but that to me sounds like it'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't sold by claiming something likely isn'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't get as exhausted as before.