How would you feel getting rid of the 40 hour work week.?

the companies that are moving to a 4 day work week are still doing a 40 hour week. they do 4 10s instead of 5 8s.

I have worked w/ companies who have done this (I was working for a temp agency & worked at these companies through the temp agency) and actually like the schedule because it gives me a longer weekend. some do a Monday thru Thursday schedule, some do a Tuesday thru Friday schedule.

I was at one company had the staff alternating between a 5 day week & a 4 day week. one week part of the staff would work a 5 day week while the remainder worked a 4 day week & then the next week they would switch. the group who worked the 4 day week would work a 5 day week.

this schedule kept the office staffed during the entire work week. Because there were fewer people in the building on Fridays, they would use less power which saved on their electric bill & Monday thru Thursday they had people working 10 hour days who got a lot of work done & they didn't have to pay OT because the people were only working 40 hours a week. more work got done & not having to pay OT meant less money going out on payroll & they were more productive which brought them in more money.

It sounds good for the replacement of the average Mon-Fri 9-5 employees. I work a alternating work schedule, when you ad 2 schedules it is hard for family life. Some companies may switch it up, but it wouldbe to hard on families that have the common (mon-fri 9-5) work week and your proposed work week. I think if it wasn't done acrossed the board it would be a lot of hate and discontent. now put the person who works midnights or swing shift in the mix and it would be a horrible situation . When you start your own company give it a shot.

You are suffering from Depression. Every one has depression now and then. It can get serious if you don't find a way to control it. Since you are home and can't drive, do something productive at home, bake a cake or cookies for your family. Help your mom clean the house with that professional detailed look. You can be a volunteer right at home, and you will be greatly appreciated for your efforts. By the time school starts again, if it hasn't already, you will feel needed which is one very good way to raise your self esteem, and makes life worth while.

Feelings and lahdeedah lifestyle preferences are becoming irrelevant. In the age of robotics, if we want any markets for all the stuff the robots are churning out, we need a lot more customers with money to spend, and that means we need a lot more jobs. Straining to dream up enough busywork to keep people spinning their wheels for a 40-hour workweek that was outdated when it started in 1940 isn't working. It's shutting more and more people out of fulltime work and even out of the job market completely, as shown by our record-breaking welfare, disability, homelessness, prison...

New graduates can't find jobs. People over 50 who've been laid off can't find jobs, even in Silicon Valley. As union leader Walt Reuther retorted after a 1939 factory tour when Henry Ford said "Let's see you unionize these robots!" - "Let's see YOU sell them cars."

How bad is a surplus of jobseekers and a scarcity of jobs? Back in 1932, inventor Art Dahlberg noticed that "never - with the exception of a few war years - has Capitalism been permitted to function under a chronic 'scarcity of labor.' It has always been forced to operate under a scarcity of job and business opportunity; and under such conditions..Capitalism is necessarily in unstable equilibrium. ...However, under a chronic and genuine scarcity of labor, Capitalism is potentially almost an ideal system of economy" - because an employer-perceived scarcity of jobseekers maintains and raises wage levels - and gives everyone more to spend.

It is now a system requirement that we quit straining for ecobashing 40-hour/week job creation and just share and spread around the vanishing market-demanded employment that hasn't yet been turned over to automation and robotics. We will have to make more jobs by redefining "full time" downward and getting lower and lower workweeks as technology gets higher and higher.

At every point, we'll need as short a workweek as it takes to restore and maintain wartime levels of full employment and markets - "wartime prosperity" without the war. More jobs thanks to shorter workweeks is the only way to absorb today's flood of desperate jobseekers and get employers bidding against one another for good help - so pay actually goes up, not down. It's a paradox but it happened in history when the workweek was cut in half from over 80 hours in 1840 to 40 hours in 1940, and pay was a lot higher in 1940 than in 1840.

Shorter hours prevents a wage-depressing surplus of mutually underbidding jobseekers where the only management skill you need is to replace high-pay employees with low-pay employees.

Edward Filene of Filene's Basement was a lot smarter about this than Henry Ford. Back in 1932 Filene made the statement, "For selfish business reasons...genuine mass production industries must make prices lower and lower and wages higher and higher, while constantly shortening the workday and bringing to the masses not only more money but more time in which to use and enjoy the ever-increasing volume of industrial products."

Don't matter to me I work 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year

It would be pretty sweet, I dont know who invented 40 hours as the norm but they deserve a swift kick in the nuts, by the time you get home and unwind its time for bed. No one wants to work their life away.

I got rid of the 40-hour work week very long ago. I now work more than 20 hours every single day of my life.