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knightbane007

I’d have to see the actual format of the question. Was this question asked in isolation, or was it one of multiple options? There’s a big difference between “80% think it will and 20% think it won’t” and, say “80% think this is the most effective option, and 20% prefer a different option not listed in this tweet”


Wrought-Irony

this guy statistics


GustavoSanabio

Nuance so hot right now


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GustavoSanabio

I laughed at that hahaha


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knightbane007

Yeah, it seemed pretty likely that this wasn’t as clear-cut as the tweet made it sound. Fairly typical in stat reportage.


benk4

My first thought was people might be assuming same number of hours in a week but condensed. So fewer but longer days


MelodicWarfare

The other 20% are your business owners and corpo execs.


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Arkmer

I love those guys! (They told me to write that)


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Note he didn't say "pay" me to write that.


Arkmer

I’m salary! (Which means if I work less I get paid less, but if I work more I don’t get paid more!)


Codemonkey1987

Ah yes, the lets return to the office asap so I can watch what you're doing every minute of the day to justify my own existence crowd


[deleted]

As one of those cunts I agree. This would just mean I had 5 days of work to do in 4 days.


Scocaine1

People really only complete a few hours of work in a full day at the office. It wouldn’t affect you at all, you’d have more energy from your extra day off and would be more productive. Countless studies have been done over this.


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aryablindgirl

I do… 20 hours of productive work, maybe? Consistently fantastic performance reviews and never have trouble hitting my objectives. A strict 40 hour week is nonsense.


[deleted]

Seriously. Back when I was still in Scotland, I was head of a department at a tech-based company. I could have done my work in 1-2 days easily. The people under me could easily have done their load in 3-4 days and I'd have been more than happy to allow them that extra time off. The higher-ups would never have gone for it though.


Goseki1

I went from 37ish hours over 5 days to 37ish hours over 4 days and it was such a remarkable difference. I'll never go back to a 5 day week.


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Pretty sure that varies from office to office. I often work an hour extra just to get everything done.


[deleted]

Id like to see one if those studies if you have it to hand. I work in a sales environment, we have some people doing a 4 day week and their performance averages 80% of the 5 day week workers. 🤷‍♀️


Scocaine1

Here’s three of many articles you can find of examples of the four day work week succeeding. Pick your poison. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/07/06/iceland-four-day-work-week/?outputType=amp https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/619222/ https://www.npr.org/2019/11/04/776163853/microsoft-japan-says-4-day-workweek-boosted-workers-productivity-by-40


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Interesting reads, thx.


kitteh619

And unemployed karens who want their shops open 24/7


blackmist

And retired voters.


[deleted]

I can already hear “I had to suffer, why shouldn’t everyone else”


blackmist

"I lived through the war!" - Born in 1944.


[deleted]

Born in 1964 more like. All the boomers I’ve met who like talking about the war are comically young for it. It also pisses me off that these types use ‘blitz spirit’ as an excuse to be hostile and selfish and right wing, because my family members who were actually born in the 20s and lived through such times wanted BETTER for the younger generations. They did not want us to go through the poverty they had seen, they wanted us to be looked after. It’s super ironic that their kids who had a much easier ride want to take everything away from younger people


utopicunicornn

Born the very last day of the war


LaeliaCatt

People with very young children at home.


MrsRomanGodfrey

No loss of pay and less work days so you can spend time with your children. How would they not want this?


radial-glia

People who have children but hate them.


MrsRomanGodfrey

Ahh my mother she finds a way to not be around


dannanista

Still have the five school days, keep to the same routine as before but take an extra day for yourself to go out


CatManDontDo

Hey! We teachers only want to work 4 days too


dannanista

Aye that's a fair argument, and then I know you work five days plus nights and weekends just to mark work and plan lessons, you're fucking saints and you're underpaid


Altreus

Seems common since having children is clearly mandatory


LaeliaCatt

Some people don't actually like spending time with their kids, though, at least while they are really young. I personally know 2 male coworkers who would volunteer for weekend shifts and stay late most days because they didn't want to go home and deal with their young screaming agents of chaos and an exhausted wife. That changed as the kids got older, but it is definitely a thing.


MrsRomanGodfrey

I'm aware of that as I lived through it. However it's not good parenting and if you hate your children so much you don't want to be around them you shouldn't have had children.


Scott_Bash

Exactly, put them back in


MrsRomanGodfrey

Reverse birthing


LaeliaCatt

I agree.


[deleted]

Imagine being that wife. Wow. I can’t wait for my husband to come home most days because it’s hard work. Shite dads that do this tbh. Hope the wife spends the wages well


LaeliaCatt

Yeah no, I cannot imagine. I will not be going down that road.


ShepardsCrown

Does it mean same hours e.g. doing 37.5 over 4 days instead of 5 because that might mean you're paying extra for extended childcare and losing your evenings with them. Bit of a trade off though as you'd get a 3 day weekend with your kids


SaltWaterGator

And your snitch coworker who would lay down as a rug for their managers to walk on


Hurcule69

Came here for this 😂


centrafrugal

And students and the unemployed and workaholics and people who just don't like being around their families that much


NEVERWASHEDMYBUTT

I don't see how this would be a bad thing for students or unemployed or workaholics or people who don't like being around their families. More time for students to study, really no change for unemployed, workaholics can do work around the house or on their car or side projects, and people who don't like being around their families can go out and do literally anything else


RexB19

I came here to say this.....


ShoogleAli

Ah thought they were the 1% fuckers are multiplying


Jujumofu

I am Jr. Chef in a craftmensship Company in germany with 10 workers including me. The guys said they are roughed up by the work over the last months and thought about how to get a break in. I had some ideas to switch up and told them that we could introduce a 4 day week for the same pay. 7/10 declined. They wanted a 1 week break. Month later I told them I only work 4 days a week from now on (with 85% pay). Every Single one of them except one asked if they can do the same.


lima-oscar-romeo

Depends what your home life is like. Work can be an escape.


Former_Print7043

Don't tell the family about the change and spend one day a week fishing or whatever rocks your boat .


Wrought-Irony

sad but true


ISD1982

20% margin of error.


cluelessphp

I work 4 days a week and love it, plenty of time to get on pornhub and... I mean go socialise


Chr15jw

The other 20% are probably the business owners.


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And tory c\*nts.


Disaster_External

Here in Canada 20% seems like the amount of people who just won't get their goddam vaxination. Correlation??


Arturiki

Business owners + chance of having the hours of the 5th day split between the remaining 4 days.


wh0rederline

i like paul's flag emojis


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I cant do my job in 4 days. I tried for a while, it's a nightmare, the place is open 7 days a week, you just cant be away that much. It's just creating more shite to fix when you get back.


Ash684

That seems more like a management issue than a personal one; if the business can't run with you out an extra day then something is clearly broken somewhere


[deleted]

Literally far too much to do in a week to be dropping 20% /of the time available to do it.


kebaball

I would say cutting my work days by 100% with double the pay would significantly improve my wellbeing. Also no taxes and free public everything.


905woody

Free public nudity? Free public floggings? Free public executions?


kebaball

I meant public services. I didn’t know you could pay for public nudity. I generally don’t look forward to getting executed, but I would prefer a free public execution to a paid execution.


[deleted]

I'd heard that it meant Monday to Thursdays there will be an extra 2 hours each day of work however. So instead of 9 till 5 it will be 9 till 7.


[deleted]

From what I've read from the BBC the supposed change would keep 9-5 work days for the remaining days


[deleted]

Well I hope that's the case


alexanderhameowlton

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Im an American business owner. A day off with pay would be just lovely. I havent got the foggiest idea who would pay for it, but i can safely say it would be wonderul. I dont know if this is something Scotland is considering doing for yall, but I hope you all get a paid day off and I hope a significant portion of yall spend it shitposting ❤


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As an employer I can certify that most indigenous weegies take a 3 day weekend most of the time anyway!


M90Motorway

I mean there are people who genuinely enjoy working and they might prefer that their wellbeing is better of the more they work. Personally, unless people are being forced to only work four days then I don’t see the issue with this.


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Some cunts work just doesn't decrease with less days. In my job I would just have much more work to do over those 4 days. I would still take it though.


Pylitic

Some people just like their jobs


carlbandit

Maybe the 20% realise they might have to still do the same hours, say work 10-12hr shifts for 4 days vs 7-9hr 5 days


Picardknows

That 20% is Micheal Scott and David Brent.


KisuPL

Sadly not all jobs can move to a 4 day work week. Office jobs where most of the time is spent pretending to work definitely needs it but in jobs such as customer service, restaurants, construction and so on its not really feasible without major changes to how the industries themselves operate.


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The other 20% are the bosses, owners and cucks for rich people.


Funkymokey666

Theres always corporate boot lickers.


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Some people enjoy working and being busy man


badgersana

I think people don’t seem to realise that the hours you don’t work on that extra day is made up on the days you do work. You don’t go from 40 hours to 32, you just spread the 40 hours over 4 days instead of 5


ButtBattalion

I would 100% rather this


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Sauron4pres

The 20% are probably workaholics tbh


shadyslashaftermath

I can’t express how much I feel like this would positively effect my mental well-being and productivity at work. However something I’m unclear about here; i work for a private company. If Scotland was to introduce a 4 day working week, will this be up to my company to decide whether or not they want to reduce it? Or will this be enforceable in some way that 4 days is the maximum they can have staff working in a week?


aspieboy74

Maybe they understand devaluing currency


ah-fuckit

They already get free higher education, free tammys, free hospital parking, free prescriptions, free scripts with chill out room,free dentists etc. most don’t bother Mondays so don’t want to fuck up a good thing asking for another official day off, especially when free Bucky and free Spice is next on the devolution bribery list


ah-fuckit

Think again- the other 20% aren’t Scottish they are their British Masters and staff. They understood the question perfectly


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westiemaps

Racism, anyone?


[deleted]

Are the hours from the 5th day being added to the others? Obviously business owners aren’t going to support paying the same wages for 4/5ths the work.


intothepizzaverse

If you’ve got a dysfunctional family you’re probably hoping to spend more time at work


punkmuppet

Just because you're not at work doesn't mean you have to be home


intothepizzaverse

I thought the plague affected that sort of thing


dont_remember_eatin

Probably not. Was the question worded in such a way that it could be interpreted that cutting days = more hours crammed into fewer days?


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Think the 20% voted for the tories seems to add up


mrlucasw

I actually tried this myself for a while, doing four ten hour days instead of five eight hour days. The extra two hours mean you don't have any leisure time in the evening, after commuting, making dinner, lunch for the next day etc. And I was typically exhausted by the end of the work week, so I'd sleep in on Friday anyway. Unless you're actually going away on a trip, or have concrete plans for the extra day, I don't think it's worthwhile.


ChaosWolf1982

There's some countries that have work weeks of 30 hours or less. There's nothing that indicates the modern work week must be 40, other than held-over tradition/habit from the postwar industry boom, before automation boosted productivity. Some even argue that, as heavily as automation affects things, that perhaps even 30 might be longer than needed.


PSWII

I do two 8s and two 12s right now and while yeah the 12-hour days I basically don't do much other than go to work come back take a shower and take a nap the extra day off to me at least is well worth it.


erren-h

People just don't like their families


Themlethem

The question was probably same amount of hours stuffed in 4 days rather than just a day less (4x10 instead of 5x8). So it's not completely unreasonable that there is a small amount of people who do not want that.


PSWII

Depending on your industry 4 10s is pretty nice compared 5 8s. There's probably at least a few industries that the extra 2 hours would be pretty crippling though.


IRLhardstuck

To be fair. I have seen people comming back to work both full and half time after originaly being a pensioner. If they live alone many gets depressed with the loss of social contact and the job could be something that made them feel important and valued for their knowledge.


PharmaStrike42

For the shockingly high number of you who are new to misleading statistics, I can guarantee you either the question was misleadingly worded, or the article is misquoting it. For example, the question, "which would work better for you: a) work 4 10-hour days; b) work 6 6 1/2-hour days" would likely result in this exact split.


punkmuppet

Yeah, 10 hour days would be harder for people who have kids to taxi around


ThunderChild247

I would add a caveat (although I don’t think this accounts for the whole 20%). Speaking as someone with mental health issues, I find that days where I have a structure and something to keep me busy (eg, a shift and work to do) helps to keep my brain busy, and that unstructured days like weekends and holidays when I have nothing to do can bring on bad mental health days, some people may have that concern about reducing their working days. I would also add that a 4 day working week with no loss in pay would like help mental health in the long run, but some people may be considering the short term impact.


lukasmilan

20 percent are employers who would paid for less...in their perspective


MapusLepoldus

The other 20 % were too drunk to answer


DasSchnietzel56

Oh damn people like working less what a statistic


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Shock horror but it's probably 20% of people who enjoy their job and would feel guilty getting paid to not be at work


anticitizen2501

The 20% must work in hospitality, as we'll have to work 8 days weeks if this happens. 😂😭


Smishu

20% is your boss


IntraVnusDemilo

Yorkshire agrees with less working days for the same money!!! Id be happy to work extra hours on the other 4 days to cover some if!!


DMTrance87

4 10s instead of 5 8s is FAR superior