Speech to Persuade for Travel

Speech to Persuade for Travel BY Jeann 104 Responses to "The Four Day Work Week" 1. AVS says: July 28th, 2009 at 2:33 pm Agree with this but why stick toa 40 hour work week? Reduce it to 35 hours. 2. david says: In the short term the staggered week does not improve building energy efficiency.

In the long term it could be substantially better, because you build based on the 80% of people that are there on any given workweek, rather than for the full workforce. Smaller buildings = less energy use, in addition to the fewer resources used to put the building up in the first place. 3. Drew Miller says: July 28th, 2009 at 2:34 pmWhy not Just stagger the workweeks on a building-by-building basis, so you get the energy efficiency and the traffic efficiency? You'd also be flattening the peak load across the week, further increasing efficiency. This, of course, assumes that people don't sit at home and crank their own AC.

It could actually be having a net- negative overall effect on energy and pollution. 4. acorvid says: July 28th, 2009 at 2:38 pm Wouldn't this also help economies by tending to boost spending in recreation and hospitality industries: another day to play, a longer weekend resulting more destination travel, etc.? 5.

arlequin says: July 28th, 2009 at 2:40 pm Or you could have a shorter work week by cutting Friday or Monday from the schedule and not replacing them in the earlier days, which would put us more in line with more civilized countries and help move the labor economy in the right direction for the future. 6. Mo says: July 28th, 2009 at 2:45 pm The thing that sucks about staggered work weeks is that it will have a negative impact on people's social lives. Even if you managed to get the same schedule as your spouse/s. o. , you'll likely have different off days from your friends.

That would suck. 7. Mo says:July 28th, 2009 at 2:46 pm Unless, you did something like have M-R schedules and T-F schedules. Most everyone gets Sat and Sun off, and traffic is lessened on Mondays and Fridays. 8. Gatchaman says: July 28th, 2009 at 2:48 pm This would have a negative impact on countless cafes, pizzerias, sub-shops, and bars.

9. diamond Joe quimby says: July 28th, 2009 at 2:49 pm A fully staggered work week would be impossible to achieve without a significant overhaul of most Jurisdictions' legal codes. Though arbitrary, the five-day week has acquired legal significance in all sorts of ways that would not be easily discarded.July 28th, 2009 at 2:50 pm Or there's the plan my wife has long advocated of 5-day weeks with 3-day weekends each week. You only lose about 7 work days per year.

You could probably still fgure out some kind of staggering, and you'd have another day of the week to name! 11. Matt says: July 28th, 2009 at 2:53 pm I agree with this, but I also think its time for our country to start what will inevitably a long debate about fewer hours in the work week. Every time in our history we've shortened the working week, one of the key issues was a growing surplus of labor that needed to be soaked up.We've addressed that through longer vacations, earlier retirements, and fewer working hours in the week. Well, we look to be heading into a medium to long term period of pretty high surplus labor. Unemployment rates are moving over 10% and theyre gonna stay high for a while.

It may take a long long time for our economy to recover enough to get us back to full employment based on the same yearly hours per worker fgure that existed prior to the recession. There are plenty of benefits beyond economic ones for working fewer hours and taking more vacation, but its also worth considering the economic benefits of it.It could help restore low unemployment rates faster, thereby helping overall recovery. 12.

Hector says: July 28th, 2009 at 2:55 pm Re: which would put us more in line with more civilized countries As usual, the hipster's answer to everything is "More work, and less play'. Particularly if that 'play involves drugs, sex, and discussing Foucault over pork chops in a coffeehouse. As the late great president of Tanzania, real socialism doesn't involve more free time and less work. That's hipster (fake) socialism, a pale substitute for the real thing.