Four-day work week?

#2
#2
Why four days. Today's communications allow for a 100% virtual office. That what I keep trying to argue to work my job from Tennessee.
 
#3
#3
4 day work week, telecommuting, and staggered work hours (to prevent traffic bottlenecks and save fuel without having to idle in traffic, plus help postpone expanding freeways/roads) are the only reasonable solutions out there. That is why it will never happen.
 
#4
#4
doesn't bother me, i usually get up every morning and work from 6:30 -7:45 from home then go in to the office. i get there bout 8:15 and work til 4:15 or so.
 
#5
#5
I could easily telecommute with my job with a slight PC upgrade at the house. I doubt it will ever happen. It is way too reasonable.
 
#6
#6
I wish I had a job that would allow for telecommuting. It's hard to deliver 20 thousand pounds of food to hospitals and restaurants via the internet.
 
#8
#8
yeah, but just think of the download time if the customer is on dialup AOL!
 
#9
#9
My regular work week is four 10 hour days. I love it. If I have to work on Friday it is overtime. I'm a Project Manager for a mechanical contractor so I have to work 2 or 3 Fridays a month. I have read where some community colleges are going to a 4 day school week so students can save some on commuting expenses.
 
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#10
"We offered it to 94 employees and 78 have taken us up on it," said university spokesman Scott Rainone.

16 people turned down the 4 day work week, in favor of a 5 day work week?

What the hell were those 16 morons thinking?
 
#11
#11
Jaytrain5 said:
"We offered it to 94 employees and 78 have taken us up on it," said university spokesman Scott Rainone.

16 people turned down the 4 day work week, in favor of a 5 day work week?

What the hell were those 16 morons thinking?
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because switching to a 10 hour day can wreak havoc on scheduling, particularly for parents who drop off/pick up their kids at school.
 
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MG1968 said:
because switching to a 10 hour day can wreak havoc on scheduling, particularly for parents who drop off/pick up their kids at school.
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The world shouldn't revolve around parents and their bratty kids. Why do single people have to suffer because mommy and daddy can't come up with a way to get the kids to soccer practice? Don't they have school buses nowadays anyway?
 
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#14
Rasputin_Vol said:
The world shouldn't revolve around parents and their bratty kids. Why do single people have to suffer because mommy and daddy can't come up with a way to get the kids to soccer practice? Don't they have school buses nowadays anyway?
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seriously TVA, get a life.
 
#15
#15
They've been doing it for a few years at the CVS warehouse I worked at. 4 days a week, 10 hours a day, and you rotate your day off. Every 4 weeks you got a friday/monday off. If you came in Friday, it was overtime. However, it's rare they let you.

I'd say the people that turned down the 4 day work week were afraid of losing the easy overtime a 5/8 work week can provide. It's easy to stay on for 30min or an hour a day at time and a half.
 
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#16
vader said:
I could easily telecommute with my job with a slight PC upgrade at the house. I doubt it will ever happen. It is way too reasonable.
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I'm in the exact same situation. I'm on the road 3 days a week and in the office 2 days a week basically because that's the way things have always been done. I suggest things like a paperless environment and telecommuting people start cringing.
 
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#17
volfanbill said:
seriously TVA, get a life.
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that's an understatement.

GAVol said:
I suggest things like a paperless environment and telecommuting people start cringing.
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while i was at my last job, we made the switch to paperless shortly after i was hired.

i'd hate to see how much paper they went through when they weren't trying because we went through a lot.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
The world shouldn't revolve around parents and their bratty kids. Why do single people have to suffer because mommy and daddy can't come up with a way to get the kids to soccer practice? Don't they have school buses nowadays anyway?
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perhaps because kids are the responsibility of their parents?

why should married people have to suffer because some bar hopping metrosexuals can't wait until Friday afternoon to don their Dolce and Gabanna jeans and stop by their local Starbucks before taking in a performance of "The Vagina Monologues"?
 
#19
#19
I would love it but my job is to support 24/7 operations so I can't see it happening. They are becoming much more accepting of working from home and we take advantage of that a couple times each week (that's why they give us laptops right?)
 
#20
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MG1968 said:
perhaps because kids are the responsibility of their parents?

why should married people have to suffer because some bar hopping metrosexuals can't wait until Friday afternoon to don their Dolce and Gabanna jeans and stop by their local Starbucks before taking in a performance of "The Vagina Monologues"?
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you calling TVA a vagina?
 
#22
#22
i could easily telecommute. the problem is when i do that i screw off way too much at home. not great for a guy who is basically on commision.
 
#24
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MG1968 said:
nah, I felt his post was an absurd response to mine, so I returned the favor. There's no indication that TVA has ever patronized Starbuck's.
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How is it absurd? If parents want to work 5 eight hours shifts... go right ahead. But if they don't, it shouldn't have any affect on the rest of the workers that prefer to work 4 tens...
 
#25
#25
Working four 10 hour days sounds great, but I've seen first hand how that can quickly become 4 10's and one 8 hour day. If you're in management it often becomes 4 12's and a 10.
 
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