4 day work week is for maintaining WLB. It makes sense in following cases: 
 1. Employees are living in metro cities with their families. Its beneficial to them. Unlike people who live outside their home state for work and their families are situated in the native state.  
 2. Married women employees. This will be Most beneficial for women as leads to flexibility. Will reduces the cases of women leaving the workforce post marriage or having kids.  
 3. I do not know if 4 day work week will reduce our workload. We have 5 day work week and still we stretch on weekends. So, this has to be factored too. 
 4. This can lead to working beyond normal hours on those 4 days to finish tasks in order to avoid stretching on the next 3 days of the week

Chartered Accountant

I've been hearing a lot about this fourday work week concept lately. A friend of mine in New Zealand just started a job at a company that's trying it out.   She says she's loving the extra day of...

I've been hearing a lot about this four-day work week concept lately. A friend of mine in New Zealand just started a job at a company that's trying it out. 

She says she's loving the extra day off, but I wonder about the long-term effects. Has anyone here experienced a compressed work week? 

I'm curious how it impacts productivity and work-life balance. If your company suddenly announced they were switching to a four-day week, how do you think it would go down?

What are your opinions on a 4 day work week?

Software Engineer

What are your opinions on a 4 day work week?- Grapevine

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Hey peeps!

Currently working in a Fintech company in Mumbai as a Frontend Engineer with over a year of experience. The current CTC is 7 LPA. 

I feel like the growth here is limited and from the past few months there's been a lot of micro-management. Even the CTC is not up to Mumbai's expense standard. I live in a soapbox and pay like 1/5 th of monthly salary. Standard of living has been decreasing while it should be opposite.

+ I've 6 days work week with 9 hours /day shift. Although I've decided to drop in papers soon, I'd like to hear your opinions. 

Brownie points if you refer me to some good early stage startup probably in BLR or Pune or Remote.

Should I continue or resign

Companies with 4 days work week?

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Is it common now to work 9x6 hours/week?
I’ll be pursuing a course simultaneously, should I incorporate according to that or search for 5 day work week?
Can you list companies working 5 days/week?

6 Day Work week

Product analyst

What is your opinion on the 14 hour work day?

How many companies still have 6 days working? I am in robotics/manufacturing in MSME, I have a 6 day Workweek, is it a general trend in manufacturing or general trend in MSME?

6 day Workweek

🚀 + To the moon, startups want your life 6 days a week and liver etc and pay 🥜

Private Equity

Robotics Engineer

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Recently the CHRO of my company called me into a discussion on improving  WORK LIFE BALANCE.  Wow. I just cannot understand. Look at this. 
1. Most companies work 5 days a week. (Except retail operations). So you get 52 weeks x 2. 104 days. 
2. 30 days annual leav
3. 9 days statutory holidays. 
4. Operational holidays. 3. 
145 days of 365 days corporate people don’t come to office. And in a hybrid format even more. 
It is these corporate vultures who want work life Balance. How can u balance your life if u r unable to do it in 145 days. 
So Narayana murthy is right - work hard like 80% of india. Who have almost no weekly off. Just saying.

The BS about work life balance

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Startups and 6 day Work week 😂

Corporate Strategist

There must be some kinda way out of here, said the Joker to the Thief.

What is your opinion on 70 hour work week?

Product Manager

Under UK's 4day/week trial's success post

With all this talk about quiet quitting and burnout, it seems like the traditional 9-5 grind is losing its appeal. I've noticed more of my colleagues advocating for flexible schedules and remote work options. 

Has this shift in priorities played out in your workplace too? How has your company responded to demands for better work-life balance? Do you think this is the new normal, or just a temporary reaction to the pandemic?

Quiet quitting, burnout, and the shift away from the 9-5: Is this the new normal for work-life balance?

hey guys, I'm interviewing at a startup currently and they are asking me if I can work 6 days a week for a couple of months initially till the Product goes live. 
how do I respond to this? I want to take the offer but the 6 day work week is what pulling me back from accepting the offer.

6 day work week normal at Startups?

It’ll never be for a couple of months only :)

Senior Associate

So I'm a trainee rn and have been thinking of making a switch (later, not immediately). I'm really drawn to the prospects remote jobs offer. But there's gotta be some fine print. I mean it can't be the exactly the rosy picture techbros paint all the time.

So I want to know the stuff nobody really talks about in detail. Like how are you taxed : are there bands, etc. How is the work life balance like? Does working remotely full-time with people from all around the world feel the same as working in a multicultural office? Is it sustainable over a long period of time?

All of your opinions are appreciated :)

Remote work - the nitty-gritty.

Hey, what is the benefit(s) that you love at your company? Something that you would like to see in all other companies that you work for.

Tell me about the benefit you love at your company

Would love to know if there are people out there who don’t get Monday morning blues?

What excites you about the work week, has it always been this way or did you find what you love to work on somewhere along the way?

People who don’t get Monday morning blues, what do you do?

Welcome to News Discussion's Private Community

- Japan is promoting a 4-day workweek to address labor shortages and improve work-life balance.
- Despite government support since 2021, only 8% of companies have adopted the shorter workweek.
- The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare offers free consulting and grants to encourage adoption.
- Cultural pressures and long-standing work habits pose significant challenges to the initiative.
- Proponents argue the model supports families and could help mitigate Japan's declining birth rate. 

 Source: [Associated Press](https://apnews.com/article/japan-4day-work-week-campaign-f78a95a89d99e7b323f7554721088d66)

Japan Encourages 4-Day Workweek to Combat Labor Shortage

Journalist

Hi Folks, has making a 9hour workday become a standard practice in all offices? 

This is sucha shitty role.. why can we just finish our work n leave? Why do we have to stay n complete 9hrs as it’s some school.

Your take on 9hours working mandatory ?

Category Marketing

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It’s should and will always be about how productive those hours actually are. 

You see, no knowledge worker puts out more than 2.5 to 5 hours of real work in a day. That’s 12.5 to 25 hours of productive work in a week. The rest? It’s just meetings, updates and moving things around.

Five-day work weeks? If you’re measuring by butts in seats, sure. But if you’re looking at actual output, it’s a joke. We need to obsess over productive time, not clocking hours. The attendance/week hours mindset is a pseudo-metric killing the workforce, making us focus on quantity over quality.

Think about it: As a knowledge worker - your days are filled with meetings, status updates, and email threads. How much of that is real, impactful work? Very little. We’re stuck in busyness, mistaking it for productivity. But then again, if orgs obsess on outcomes only, employees will call them out: 'You don’t see my effort to go from A to Z, you don’t acknowledge it.' Hence, orgs measure you by hours. And for those thinking, 'Pay me by hours, overtime factored in' – great on paper, but useless for knowledge workers.

IMHO, we are way more more comfortable measuring by hours than outcomes.
We rave about deep work, about focus hours, but in reality we laude how long someone stays logged in. 

Weird isn't it.

The real debate isnt / wasnt about how long the work week should be (70/60/50/40).

Human Resource

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I strongly believe if companies reduced work hours to 6-7 hours a day it’ll increase in individual’s moral as well as productivity, what do you guys think? 
Currently my shift hours is 9 hours a day traveling to and from excluded which leads to 12 hours a day, which gets hectic sometimes.

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