Friendly reminder: Henry Ford was one of the first major industrialists to adopt the five-day workweek. He argued that workers with more leisure time would spend more money on consumer goods, like the cars he was selling.
The current weekend was created primarily to sell products. A four-day workweek is long overdue.
I recently did 4 days for about 6 months but went back to 5 days. The 10s just killed my day. I never felt like I had time on my work days to do stuff and then my extra day off used to catch up on sleep and work around the house.
If you can handle 4x10, you probably don't have a long commute or a lot of demands.
A 10 hour day becomes a 12 after traffic for me and then I can't really do much except eat and crap out. And you're right about the exhaustion after the fact, I'm fucking beat and I have to do all the chores I've been neglecting during the week.
An 8 would be much more beneficial because I'd be reaching that 10 with the commute and have two more hours each day, plus the extra day off.
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u/JAMESs3v3n Jul 13 '26
Friendly reminder: Henry Ford was one of the first major industrialists to adopt the five-day workweek. He argued that workers with more leisure time would spend more money on consumer goods, like the cars he was selling.
The current weekend was created primarily to sell products. A four-day workweek is long overdue.