I love my job. I love what I do. And yet the grind of going day after day, five days a week, every week except for maybe three or four times a year when I take vacation (and I try to take more than I'm allotted believe me...). It's just stifling. It's tiring. It makes me not want to get up for work in the morning. But after a three day weekend and with only four days to work in the week, I always feel better.
If it doesn't happen at my work here I'll figure a way to make it work somewhere else I hope. But it's not an option for most people, and maybe it should be.
The most interesting bit, for me, in the article was the observation that culturally, we've often forgotten that work is only part of our lives. So many of us base much of our identity on what we do for a living that we forget that the concept of vocation encompasses more than just what we do for a paycheck.
Then eventually transition to 4x8-hour days as people accept 4 days as normal... Just a thought.
https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-gospel-of-consumption/
that goes a little more in depth into the history of the 40 hour work week.
* What size is the company?
* Who proposed the change?
* Were people resistant to the idea? Which people? How were they persuaded otherwise?
* What differences are noticeable about the company now? Productivity? General happiness in the office?
* Any advice for people wishing to follow in your footsteps?
