What is a Four-Day Week?

The so-called "four-day work system" originally did not mean that it only worked four days a week, but that one day a week allowed employees to do things other than their job duties. To this day, government agencies and private companies in some European and American countries have begun to vigorously implement a four-day weekly work system. Under the premise of ensuring that the total amount of work remains the same, people who work on a four-day work week have 10 hours of work a day, and many people are happy to accept this change. Many people think that in this way they can spend two fewer transportation expenses per week and enjoy an extra day of holiday. Some countries have even introduced policies that allow some employees to try out the "four-day work system" first, and give certain employees subsidies to reward them for saving energy.

Four-day work

The four-day work system was originally due to the soaring price of gasoline, and the city of Birmingham was forced to consider the implementation of the four-day work week. In fact, the four-day work week is no longer news. In the United States, a four-day work system was proposed and introduced in the 1970s because of the oil crisis.

The United States, known as the world's largest oil consumer, is a mainstream lifestyle. With a population of 300 million, 260 million cars were registered. Most of the oil consumption in the United States was "drank" by cars. In addition, cars are not rare for the rich in the United States, and it is obvious to take a private car to work or work.

After all, resources are limited,

After the "Friday work system" was changed to "Thursday work system", the income of enterprise employees was affected to a certain extent, and the income of some employees who were rotated was reduced by 20% or even more than 50%. ^[1]

With the implementation of the four-day work system, the opinions of netizens have been divided into two groups: some people are looking forward to the "four-day work system", but more people think that the current work system is already very reasonable. For the "four-day work system", they Keep watching.

Voice 1: I am looking forward to the "four-day work system"

For some people in the workplace, the "four-day work system" may be what they have been expecting. Although this requires 10 hours of work per day, they can enjoy an extra day of vacation and more free time. .

Netizen X is one of the representatives looking forward to the "four-day work system", and the reason she expects to implement the "four-day work system" is that she needs an extra day of vacation to do part-time work.

"I hope to implement the" four-day work system ", but not all units will implement it, as long as my regular unit implements such a work system." Miss X said, "In this way, I can have one more day to go With part-time work, there will be no more part-time and full-time conflicts. "

While netizen Xiao Chen hopes to implement the "four-day work system", he hopes that under the new working system, he can truly realize his aspirations of weekends. "My work intensity is very high. Currently, I can only take a day off every week. And I have to have my phone on 24 hours a day, and I am always on the go. If I can implement the "four-day work system", maybe I can enjoy an extra day of vacation accordingly and truly achieve a double holiday. "

Voice 2: "Five-day work system" is more reasonable than "Four-day work system"

In our discussions, more netizens felt that the current "five-day work system" was already very reasonable. If the "four-day work system" was implemented, some netizens worried that the daily work intensity would be too great, and some netizens would Worrying about having too many holidays can make you lazy.

Netizens "rice noodles" kept watching the "four-day work system" because they were worried that the work intensity would become greater. "Rice" feels that in four days to complete the work that would have taken 5 to 6 days to complete, the intensity of work will inevitably increase. "I am already busy with my daily work. If I compress five days of work, Wouldn't it be more busy to finish it in four days? Although there is an extra holiday on the surface, the total amount of work to be done is still the same, which is too tiring. "

Netizen Xiao B believes that the current "five-day work system" is more reasonable than the "four-day work system". If you only work four days a week, you may become lazy.

"I think that if you work four days a week, there are too many holidays and it will easily make you lazy; if you work six days a week, it will be too hard. So, five days a week is appropriate." Xiao B said, "Like us Although the company has to work five days a week, it is usually more flexible and flexible. If necessary, you can take a vacation, which is very humane. " ^[2]

The four-day workday looks beautiful

I think this can solve several major problems facing China:

High energy consumption. China's total GDP accounts for 15% of the world, but energy consumption accounts for 20-30% of the world. What's more serious is that high energy consumption leads to high pollution.

unemployment rate. On the surface, China's unemployment rate was not high in the early 21st century. However, there is not much arable land per capita in China, and there is a large surplus of young and middle-aged labor in rural areas. The four-day work system can provide more jobs.

The development of the tertiary industry is uneven and the industrial structure is irrational. In developed countries, the tertiary industry accounts for 65 to 70% of the gross national product in order to achieve a good social structure. The proportion of tertiary industry in China is still very low.

These problems can be alleviated if a four-day work day is implemented.

It can solve the problems of high energy consumption and high pollution caused by repeated construction and oversupply of commodities.

Can improve effective working hours. In fact, in many of our units, the effective working hours per day is only 60% of the system working hours, and the real working time per day is at most 4.5 hours. If the water is squeezed out and the five-day work is done in a four-day work system, giving everyone one more day to relax and study, the biggest advantage is that the service industry will develop.