Source: Thank God it’s Thursday: The four-day workweek some want to bring to the U.S.
As usual, this is presented as “cram 40 hours a week into 4 days”, so either work harder or longer:
“Workers may also face higher, not lower, levels of stress if the shorter workweek means they have to accomplish the same amount in a shorter amount of time, according to Allard Dembe, a retired Ohio State University public health professor who authored an op-ed arguing against the four-day week.”
…AND reduce wages due to working 8 less hours:
“Critics warn the push for a four-day week could backfire with unintended consequences for workers, including by cutting their pay through shorter hours.”
“It’s not just we’d mandate, ‘Everybody has Friday off,’ and tomorrow we would all move to a four-day week,” Harper said. “It’s obviously a gradual process — we want a gradual, steady, managed transition for all workers. We need to see that the gains from the economy can be shared not just in resources and money, but also in time.”
BUT!!!! workers have NOT shared in the money, if this is to be believe (I know not if these are true):
This graph shows the same info (?) and adds changes in economic policy; again, usa. and i’m not sure of the differenced between “Real GDP per FTE,
see also Wage Stagnation in Nine Charts
