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A four-day workweek should become the standard without a pay cut

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We ran it at the depot for a year. Four tens, same pay, Friday off on rotation so the dock never closed. Sick days dropped. Turnover dropped. Output per week was flat, which for a warehouse is a win because we'd budgeted for it to fall. I'm not a startup guy and I'm not selling a book. I'm telling you a crew of forklift drivers in Ohio did it and nobody wants to go back. If it works on a loading dock it works in an office. Make it the standard.

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first time posting here, I'm on a gap year working a café four days and the thing nobody's said is that I spend less money on the four-day week, because the fifth day I cook and walk and don't buy lunch out. so the pay cut everyone's scared of kind of already happened and I didn't notice

— MistyFawn231

Germany's largest union negotiated a four-day week option for shift workers in 2018, at a cost in pay. The thread keeps pretending this is new. The only new part is "without a pay cut", and that part is where every negotiation I have seen fails.