….We Need Three-Day Weekends
1. Two days is simply not enough time to recover from the work week AND get ready for the following work week. After you’ve done the laundry, cleaned the house and shopped for groceries, it leaves little time for important things like relaxing, drinking wine, watching television and taking naps. But if there was a three-day weekend, you could do all your laundry, shopping and cleaning, AND have plenty of time left for the good stuff.
2. A two-day weekend means that 71.4% of the work is consumed by work. That hardly seems reasonable or fair because it means non-work time is totally overshadowed by time spent working for the MAN..or WOMAN.
3. If more people worked four-day weeks, more employment opportunities created. Think about it, if we all worked 20% less a week, someone would have to make up for that 20%. It would be win-win. Another person would get to work and, more important, you would get to work less.
4. It would make most people more productive. If you had to do all your work in four days rather than five, then you would really need to focused and hard working. Instead of wasting time drinking coffee, surfing the Web, bidding on eBay and going for long lunches, you would need to work harder because you knew that three days of vacation were the reward.
5. With a three-day off, four-day on schedule, it would reduce overall stress in society. We’d all be nicer, more civilized and relaxed people. It would be good for society as a whole in addition to good for individuals.
More: If five reasons for a four-day work week aren’t enough, check out The Oil Drum, which lists 16 reasons why it’s time for a four-day work week. I particularly like #16 - “The 4 Day Work Week feels great!”. For more on the four-day work week, check out Ryan Carson’s post looking at the “Four-Day Work Challenge”.
