#work-week — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #work-week, aggregated by home.social.
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Sri Lanka announces a four-day work week to conserve fuel as fears grow over prolonged Middle East conflict and disruptions in Strait of Hormuz oil supplies. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/sri-lanka-four-day-work-week-fuel-crisis-middle-east-war-hn0a92u6?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #SriLanka #StraitOfHormuz #MiddleEastCrisis #WorkWeek #OilSupply
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from #TheCrux
"Three day weekends are excellent and I think we should have more of them. I am far from alone.
A trial across multiple countries found a four-day work week reduces burnout. The World Economic Forum found four-day work weeks to be good in 2022. There’s also groups that run training courses on how to move your company to a four-day work week and they have a bunch of research also.
Since we’re all about data-driven decision making these days, I guess we’re all moving to adopt four-day work weeks as fast as we can, right? Given all the benefits and the research showing it’s a good thing to do? No?
Apparently it takes around 20 years for research to fight its way out of the dry prose of academic journals and into the wider populace.
A four-day work weeks seems weird only because we’re used to five, but there’s nothing natural about a two-day weekend. It’s remarkable how quickly people adjust to sudden changes in timekeeping, after all. Weeks aren’t real in the way that days are, and yet we make weird and arbitrary changes to how long a day is all the time and call it #daylightsaving.
Maybe we could start calling #fourdayweeks “#weekend saving” and start doing it for six months at a time to get people used to the idea. Once the people closer to the equator figure out what to do with their curtains and cows for half a year, we could suggest that this changing of the week twice a year is silly and we should just move to a permanent four day work week.
Then we can move on to the next goal: the three day work week.
Who’s with me?"
🖐️ man being already a #4dayweek practitioner i am *SO* with you on this @daedalus
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-22/four-day-work-week-health-burnout/105555392
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Tonight is a weird night for me.
My employer doesn't allow employees to carry vacation days or personal days over from one year to the next. That used to be an option, but about 8 years ago they restricted us, and then completely forbade any carry over. We have to use them or lose them.
So for the past 8 years, I've realized in September that I had to take a lot of vacation days or lose them. I've been working for the same company for over 25 years now, so I'm maxed out on vacation days: 5 weeks, plus 2 personal days. I also have what used to be called sick days, but I think those might carry over. I'm not sure.
Anyway, what I've been doing is taking every Friday off every week from September through the end of the year. Even then, I still have more days I have to take; so the last month or two I'm off quite a bit. Fortunately, those are the quietest times of the year for me.
But tomorrow will be the start of the first full five working day week for me in months. For the last 4 months or so, I've been living with a 4-day work week, and often a three-day work week. Let me tell you something: a shorter work week is better. MUCH better. It's like having my life back.
It's only after spending months working four days per week that I realize the sheer *insanity* of spending 5/7ths of my life doing something that I would NOT choose to do on my own, just for me and my family to survive - and only barely, at that!
The labor movement in the United States brought us the 5-day week and the 40-hour work week. Then the monied class bought them out, corrupted them, and destroyed them in all but name.
The Democratic Party passed measures to help the working class after the Great Depression, and then they got bought out, corrupted, and converted into loyal servants of the war machine and the billionaire class.
What happened to the American people? Why did they stop fighting? What the hell is wrong with us?
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Stabbed myself in the hand this week at work. Didn't need stitches but its made putting pressure on my left hand almost impossible.
Hitting the elliptical machine exclusively until the hand is better.
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#Science confirms what we all suspected: Four-day weeks rule
As long as you get paid like a 5-day gig
The research, led by Boston College associate professor of sociology Wen Fan and economics professor Juliet Schor, also found that changes to #working patterns led to better #jobsatisfaction and fewer #sleep problems.The research found that switching to a four-day #workweek led to an actual reduction in average working hours of around five hours per week.
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it's only Tuesday......
#catsofmastodon #cats #Humor #workweek -
In case you want to get inside the mind of someone who DOESNT want a 4-day #workweek: "My #GenZ #Employees Want a 4-Day Workweek. How Do I Get Them to Back Off?"
https://www.comstocksmag.com/article/dilemma-month-my-gen-z-employees-want-4-day-workweek-how-do-i-get-them-back -
If AI Lets Us Do More in Less Time–Why Not Shorten the Workweek?
https://sfg.media/en/a/if-ai-lets-us-do-more-in-less-time/
#HackerNews #AI #Workweek #Innovation #Productivity #Automation
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If AI Lets Us Do More in Less Time–Why Not Shorten the Workweek?
https://sfg.media/en/a/if-ai-lets-us-do-more-in-less-time/
#ycombinator #artificial_intelligence #workweek -
“I made it,” she said
keys in trembling hand,
one week closer to
her retirement
as the door swung back
to her private world
where dogs leapt with joy
and headaches faded,
too tired for much
except the solace.#poetry #poetrycommunity #weekend #tgif #strongwomen #exhausted #workweek #workingwomen #home #introvert #writers
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73% of #German #companies that tried a Four-Day #Workweek will keep the schedule as productivity scores were higher: A new era for #work?
https://bngstory.com/73-of-german-companies-that-tried-a-four-day-workweek-will-keep-the-schedule/ -
#Iceland approved the 4-day #workweek in 2019: nearly 6 years later, all the #predictions made have come true.
https://farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/10/iceland-approved-the-4-day-workweek-in-2019-nearly-6-years-later-all-the-predictions-made-have-come-true/ -
The @MozillaAI team is together this week in Spain, a treat for our fully remote team.
Great energy, great ideas, and exciting connections to Lumigator & Blueprints. More soon!
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In 2019, Iceland Approved the 4-Day #Workweek: Nearly 6 Years Later, All Predictions by #GenerationZ Have Come True
https://www.wecb.fm/in-2019-iceland-approved-the-4-day-workweek-nearly-6-years-later-all-predictions-by-generation-z-have-come-true/ -
#JeffBezos brings #Amazon work culture to #BlueOrigin. Blue Origin employees say they are moving to a permanent 50-hour #workweek with frequent 12-hour shifts and that badge scanners have been introduced to track employee time. https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/jeff-bezos-brings-amazon-work-culture-to-blue-origin/ #surveillance #labor #unions #workforce
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Capgemini India CEO Backs 47.5-Hour Work Week | IndiaWeekly
https://www.indiaweekly.biz/capgemini-india-ashwin-yardi-no-weekend-emails/
#Capgemini #AshwinYardi #WorkHours #WorkWeek #debates #MentalHealth #MentalHealthMatters #Worklifebalance #Worklife @capgemini
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#Monday.. the regular workweek kick in the junk.
Warmer temps in paradise but soggy off and on with highs in the 50s, lows above freezing, and occasional rain.
Time for the weekly grind.. bring it.
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Someone has a Case of the Mondays
It is Monday again. Blah.
I have two full work weeks (counting today) left before we go on vacation. Today is the start of what I expect will be a long two weeks. It’s weird how we just got through the holidays and their frequent days off, and yet after just one full week back at work I am already stressing out and needing to go away again. Does this mean I’m kinda spoiled rotten?
Yes. Yes it does.
Here’s a moody looking cat to lighten the moody:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54264141844/in/dateposted/
Happy Monday, everyone. Blah, blah.
#Cat #iphoneography #Kitty #looksLikeSomeoneHasACaseOfTheMondays #monday #mondays #photography #robin #Stress #unexpectedStress #Vacation #work #workWeek
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Indiana is sending his best wishes to you for Monday morning and the rest of the week!
#Monday #MondayMorning #Morning #Cat #Orangecat #Work #WorkWeek
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"Iceland’s economy is outperforming most European peers after the nationwide introduction of a shorter working week with no loss in pay, according to research released Friday.
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Researchers found that productivity stayed the same or improved in most workplaces, while workers’ wellbeing increased “dramatically” on a range of measures, from perceived stress and burnout to health and work-life balance."
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/25/business/iceland-shorter-working-week-economy/index.html
#news #workers #labor #WorkersRights #WorkWeek #FourDayWorkWeek
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I mean no disrespect, but ISO 8601 designates Monday as the first day of the week because it marks the start of the workweek. Therefore, having Sunday as the first day doesn’t make sense. #ISO8601 #MondayMotivation #WorkWeek #TimeManagement
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I am having a weird week and I feel like I have to write it down in order to make sense of it.
It’s a full work week for me. Five days. I am going to be out for a couple of hours in the middle of the day tomorrow, but other than that we’re on the normal schedule.
Why then did yesterday (Tuesday) feel like Friday? All day long I was focusing on the imminent start of the weekend… when the weekend was still more than three days off. It did not make any sense. Now it’s Wednesday and somehow, unbelievably, it still feels like Friday? I just don’t get it.
Does this mean that tomorrow (Thursday) is going to feel like Friday too? Is every day going to feel like Friday until I actually get a Friday? Is every day going to feel like Friday until the end of time? How is that going to affect the weekend? Is Saturday (if it ever gets here) going to feel like Monday? Or Tuesday? Or Blurnsday?
What caused this epic scramble in my internal calendar? What caused my brain to go so far off the rails? Will I ever recover and get back to normal? The answers are, I don’t know, I don’t know, and probably not. Oh well.
I have about an hour and 40 minutes until my Wednesday (not Friday) work day ends. Once that happens I can start wondering if Thursday is going to feel like Friday too. I’ll let you know how that goes.
https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/08/07/weird-week/
#calendar #everyDayFeelsLikeFriday #internalCalendar #mentalCalendar #observation #perception #schedule #weekDays #work #workWeek
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just a hashtag to find that picture if needed. #theworkweek #workweek
