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I work 4 10 hour days and I love having the extra day off but it does make for a long day.
I work 4 10s with Fridays off. I love having the 3 day weekends, and I don't have to cover the extra 2 hours of a holiday with PTO. By Thursday afternoon I'm pretty beat, but it's worth it to me. I think I get as much done as I used to with a 5 day week.
At my work, there were combinations of five by eights and four by tens and the biggest problem with four by tens is you’re only getting paid eight hours of holiday pay or if you need a day off you have to use 10 hours of PTO instead of eight over a week that’s a full extra day. That was the biggest complaint from our folks who had four by tens. On a holiday they only got paid eight hours and they had to cover the extra two hours with PTO.
Be careful what you wish for.
That’s interesting. Didn’t think about PTO and holidays as being different than “days”.
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Typically a four day week is 4 10s and 40 hours is 40 hours for me I'd get the same amount done as long as it's the same amount of hours and I would enjoy the long weekend every week
I've read about companies that have switched to four 10-hours days, and I've love to try something like that. The idea of regular three-day weekends would open up a lot of possibilities for fast hiking and camping trips, so I'd be into it. The problem is that most companies will never do it because other companies work five days. People would be out of sync and it would be disruptive to business.
Our company offered 4 days a week 10 hour shifts and I opted not to. It just sounded overwhelming especially because only a small portion of us were able to obtain the coveted Friday day off, everyone else got Wednesday or Thursday which feels wrong because it’s not consecutive. I know it works for some, and they get 20 minute breaks instead of 15, but I didn’t want to do it. Another aspect is that during holiday weeks, they go back to a regular 8 hour schedule. To me it seems overly complex.
It’s ok if you’re hourly. As a manager, it’s not the hours worked but work accomplished each week/month that matters.
I used to work 4 10's but on a holiday week you had to revert to regular and when you took PTO you would have to revert to regular. Became a PITA to keep track of.
Yes! If companies don’t want to pay what the cost of living is, we should at least get some time back in our lives.
I love the 4 day week. Work 10 hour days
Tried this for a while. It was ok at first and nice to have that extra day off. People make this sound like it’s a 10 hour day when it’s really 11 hours (with your lunch and not including travel time if you’re in the office). I’m not sure I was more productive since after a while I started to feel more tired each day. It’s great for some people, but not everyone.
The funny thing is. We are all conditioned by the corporations that 40 hours is the magic mandatory number of hours needed from us to get the job done. It is absolutely ridiculous. Why not 4 days a week/32-35 hours? Who made this stuff up? Where is our freedom in life?
Congress tried to pass this a few years ago. Washington state also tried this recently.