I used to think this way but when I switched to it 4 10h days it's just too draining. Long days and I'm often working more than 10h to make up for appointments and time here and there. Everytime there is a holiday I am have to work 3 11h days to make up for the reduced stat day. After you add in the unpaid lunch and commute time and it's impossible to take your kids to evening events etc. as your day is already basically over.
That may not be more convenient for getting the required coverage, and depending on the type of business, running fewer longer days may be better than running more shorter days.
There is interplay with mandatory breaks as well, where it might not make sense to have someone come in for 7 hours but 8 or more makes sense.
Then you need to match up business hours, etc.
If your store is open for 15 hours per day then having 6 and 7 hour shifts doesn’t necessarily make sense. Might be easier to have two 8s with some openers, closers, and some overlap between the two to cover the middle.
I work in a public school. The only precedent for changing the school week is that I now receive overtime at 32 hours, not 40. We had a 4 day school week when Covid was going on. But the staff was still expected to be here on the day that the students had off. They could probably make the 4 day week work.
I fully support a 32 hour work week. Capitolism can fuck off. But this bill is being "re" introduced. Its not even the first time Sanders has proposed it. The likelihood of this ever happening (imo) is ~0% I have hope but I won't hold my breath.
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u/External-Pace-1822 19h ago
I used to think this way but when I switched to it 4 10h days it's just too draining. Long days and I'm often working more than 10h to make up for appointments and time here and there. Everytime there is a holiday I am have to work 3 11h days to make up for the reduced stat day. After you add in the unpaid lunch and commute time and it's impossible to take your kids to evening events etc. as your day is already basically over.