Best idea ever: the three-day workweek!
The magazine NewScientist makes a compelling case for the four-day workweek. I have a better idea: How about a three-day workweek. Keep the office open three days a week, and have staff work from home (or wherever) two days per week. Everybody wins!
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Slacker Employees
"First, it's trivially easy to goof off right in front of the boss. Slacker employees might be sitting at their computers, but how do you know they're not playing online poker or checking their Facebook profiles?"Or reading emagizine articles ...
What about the majority of
What about the majority of office workers who can't work from home?I like
I like this proposal: Why not embrace a three-day workweek, and have the other two workdays be work-at-home days?Goofing off at home
How many times have you been sick enough to infect everyone else in the office, but not too sick to sit at your computer and work? Now everyone is sick and coming into work to pass it around again! At my company if you have a laptop, which most of us do, you are encouraged to stay at home and keep your germs to yourself, but also expected to remote in from home and get your work done.My Sister, who was a Supervisor at the company she worked for, was always beinginterupted by questions from those she supervised. She had to stay at home for a few days after a medical proceedure so she took work home with her. She took home more work than she thought she could get done in a day, but found by lunch she had completed everything she had planned to do that day. She actually got twice as much done at home, than she did at the office.
Unnecessary invasion of our home environment
The reason for not doing it, is the unnecessary invasion of our home environment by companies. If it's not enough to have 1/3 of time controlled by companies, extend companies' work to our homes will soon eliminated any reasonable frontier. Meanwhile, the four-day workweek points in the opposite direction. Remember: you work to live, you don't live to work.Interesting point.
If I look at pornography on my home computer while telecommuting am I breaking company policy? Would I be able to smoke at my desk or do I still have to go outside? If I make a randy comment to my wife as she walks by is that on the job sexual harrassment?Better yet...
If we implemented slave labor then we could stay home 7 days a week and collect a check while working someone else to death.Where is the bad?
Good for managers, Bad for programmers.
The whole idea of work for someone else is to get paid for your effort. Taking the work to your home will simply mean that you are working for free one day at your home instead of getting paid to do so. No offense, but that time can be used to spend quality time with your family, do your own projects, learn new skills or just have some R&R. Why spend time doing work for someone else to get rich if you are not get paid to do so?Its interesting how intelligent people in one are, can act stupid on another. No offense, but I do not see engineers or doctors work for free. This only happen on the software development industry. Which is great for managers as they get free labor, but makes programmer's to be more or less willing slaves. Intelligent people acting stupid.
4 work, 1 play
So how about 3 days in the office, one tele-commute and 1 more day to play. I think the 4 day work week / 3 day weekend is what helps on the employee morale issue. My vote is three 10 hour days in the office and one 10 hour day of work at home and 3 days of family time!I like it... except
I work in a school... so unless those kids get a 4 day "work" week, I'm out of luck. You can't see the problem was that it was unplugged if you're sitting at home.3/2 schedule
I did the 3-in-office, 2-at-home schedule for about six years. In addition to saving several thousand miles of wear and pointless driving time on my car, the company got many hundreds of extra hours of work because I would routinely start earlier or work later that when I had an hour long commute on each end of the day.2 day workweek
My perfect work week is going into work Friday nigth at midnight, working 20 hours, sleeping 8 hours at my desk, working another 20 hours, and having tyhe next 5 days off. Still a 40 hour week....and you get 5 days free.Where is the Leisure Time Crisis?
"The second approach is to cut actual hours, and cut pay as well."What happened to the THIRD approach, to cut actual hours, but maintain pay.
When I was young (it was awhile ago), one of the future concerns raised by magazines like Popular Science was the coming "leisure time crisis". That's right, by the end of the 20th century, workers would be so productive, they could accomplish their work in 3 8-hour workdays, and they would have 4-day weekends.
The "crisis" was how people would occupy themselves for all that free time, this was before video games were invented.
It was also before accounting took over all the companies, and "cut pay" or "increase hours per day" became such an "obvious" solution to modified work weeks.
Work at Home - Telecommute
Now if I can just figure out how to give an injection (nurse) to a patient while I work from home, we would all be set!3 days a week
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This isn't a 3 day work week
This proposal is still a 5 day work week. Only the location has changed. You still have to work those other two days "from home" and most people will end up working longer than they otherwise would have in the office. You also can't save on day care in this case. Just because you aren't going to the office doesn't mean you will have the time to care for your children while somehow also getting the job done.Lots of companies allow part-time telecommute schedules. The idea of coordinating everyone to the same schedule would definitely help companies save on energy, etc. The employees will make up for that in increased energy bills at home, but most people would enjoy the flexibility and it would be worth it. This wouldn't work for everyone, but not a bad idea.