No, but the four workday movement isn't particularly strong atm. The five out of seven isn't some magical number, neither is 8 hrs rest 8 hrs work 8 hrs leisure. It's all things unions worked towards. With productivity rising substantially and wages stagnating it should follow that we get to work less, but alas the overlords say no, work more, hey your co-workers has done more hours wtf are you doing.
I think its that way, because if work days were on a cycle independent of the calendar week, it’d be really confusing. And you can’t really dismantle the 7 day week since literal billions of people organize their religious life according to it. Just ask the French revolutionaries, people don’t like you messing with the week.
@@San-lh8us Its when youre contemplating all the work you have to do tommorrow that you've put off on Saturday. On Friday evening? No worries, no thoughts, no nothing. Just bliss.
How about weekend Wednesday but Saturday and Sunday are still no work days. That way you work 4 days a week and relax 3 days a week. Now that would be something
This is a hard disagree from me. I feel the MAIN issue of the weekend still isnt addressed which is not having time to do the things you couldnt do during the week (clean, grocery, etc) AND have time to recharge. I think most people feel not that the work week is too long, but the weekend is too short. A 3 day weekend solves this almost flawlessly
Couldn't have said better myself I think that school/work tend to forget that we have other things going on at weekends what makes it worse is that they may even try to give you more work at home in the weekends and when you tell somebody that you can't rest they say "oh but you had all of the weekend to rest" and when you need more time to work "oh but you had all of the weekend to finish that work"
I wish weekends were actually a day off instead of just a day of studying at home because youve got a bunch of assignments, teachers rely on the fact you’ll study during break days smh
But school homework isnt really much. In University you have to visit the courses, learn everything by yourself while having to do assignments and projects and follow up your readings. The actual free days begin once you start working.
The big downside: this means I can't devote a day to "longform (social) entertainment" that may run for 5+ hours in the late afternoon or evening. (E.g. Game Night with friends) If I do it on the Saturday, I have to start late because of work, I'm already tired and don't have any time to do necessary hobby prep. If I do it on Sunday, I have work in the morning and have to cut things off early. For people who enjoy clubbing or other noctural activities, this would be even worse since they're already tired from a work day going into it on the Saturday, and they just can't do it on the Sunday since they actually need to sleep.
I'll agree with you there, there are many, albeit more rare, instances where the traditional weekend cycle does pose distinct advantages. As someone who grew up with separated parents, a weekend wednesday would have made it a nightmare to organize weekends with dad when only a single night at a time without school. However, as mentioned in the video, it would be advantageous for only a portion of society to follow the weekend wednesday cycle, as it would mean that saturdays for those following traditional weekends would have more people working and fewer people shopping or doing errands than normal. Personally, I would like to follow the weekend wednesdays now that I am independent of my parents
Also, here's a little fun fact here: I'm a salesman in a very tourist heavy state and my job heavily revolves around guests and tourists, and ALWAYS, ALWAYS, Wednesdays are the slowest most empty days. With the least amount of sales and least amount of customer interaction. It's always Wednesdays.
I work front desk at a hotel, and wednesdays are also slowest for me. Nobody really calling to check prices for a room, not really any walk ins, and there's usually not a lot of reservations for the day
@@elizabethdyer8127 yeah nobodies ever doing anything on Wednesdays, that's why I prefer my off days go be Tuesday Wednesday, so then I'll only work the busy days
@@mjcortez2460 not really, especially if your vacation time works off of hours worked. And honestly, going to places on the weekdays, like a Wednesday when it's Uber slow, everything is cheaper :)
The worst day of the weekend isn't Saturday, it's Sunday. On Friday and Saturday you truly rest so when Sunday comes around and you have to prepare physically and mentally for a new week it just feels like too much.
@@pr3ntki331 no as in the creator said that Saturday is the worst weekend. When in reality (as the commenter said) Sunday is the worst since you need to start preparing for the rest of the week.
Yeah, this just makes Sunday except now there's TWO OF THEM. The dread of Monday/Thursday is just stressing and makes you feel dreading whereas Saturday feels like a limitless day of opportunity. I think a 4-day week and 3-day weekend is the best schedule personally.
Weekend Wednesday is less "bipolar" for want of a better term. It means you never get the bad Sunday night/Monday morning feeling but it also means you never get the Friday high because you only ever have 1 day off ahead of you. I think weekend Wednesday would suck more overall
hey, i tried this once! it sucked because i couldn't do anything with my family and every day off was a recharge day. it felt more like i was working nonstop
Damn. He did say that it wouldn't work for everyone. But that's alright. Experiment. See what works. I'm young though so I don't really know how flexible you can mind your hours. Anyway. Uuuh, gabagool
I assumed, the best part of the weekend is being able to stay up late at night without consequence. I feel like the best work week is 3 days off; Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday
Yes. I have a free day on wednesday because i have more school time on the other days. And the teachers just give A LOT OF HOMEWORK. By the time im truly enjoying the day off, i have to sleep cause i have school the next day
I’m a janitor and i started working at a school before the summer. So we were doing summer work. Which means we only worked Monday-Thursday. Having a 3 day weekend is very nice and actually helped me recharge and felt better mentally
I was so nervous before I started about potentially hating 10 hour shifts but I actually love them and I'll never go back to a 5 day work week, even with my plans to end up self employed in the future.
@@zacharyfissler I love my 4x10 work. I get off at 3:30 Monday morning and I'm not back until 17:00 Thursday night. Means trips are easy, if a little off on normal people travel schedules (gotta love 24 hour diners and hotels with night clerks).
In college we had 4-day weeks, and we’re the top uni in the Philippines, outperforming those that had 5-6 days a week. We had Wednesdays off, but also the entire weekend. It’s amazing what well timed rest can do
I've been thinking about this for years, the main problem is that you can't take 2-day trips and stuff like that; also, you'll be tired from work in every day you can stay up until late at night.
You could also have a free day on saturday. And I think this wouldn't be a huge problem because your general productivity and motivation would be higher.
Just swap Saturday and Sunday. Friday nights and Saturdays free. Sunday I would work 9-6 which was ok but the rest of the week I worked 12-9. The hour long lunch is also amazing. As for your two day trips, you can still have them, you’ll just use a little vacation time. Personally, I’ve found that such a short trip would neither be relaxing nor rewarding.
I was surprised to see no mention of the "4 day work week" model that has been actively discussed the past decade. Far be it from you to cut corners though, so I have to ask.... have you also tried the 4 day work week? It seems like the sort of thing you'd try, at least for a while. Assuming you did, how much more or less productive was it than the Wednesday Weekend model outlined in this video?
I do 4x10s and it's great. I currently opt for Fridays off, but honestly Wednesdays off seems like the best of both worlds. You still have your full weekend, plus the day off in the middle to break it up.
I'm currently self-employed and have been working 2PM-10PM (I can't function in the morning) MTThF. It works amazingly when my work is going well, but not as much when I have a big problem and have to really push to get through it. I just end up treating every day like a Thursday or Friday of a typical work week and just kinda waste time until I can "clock out". I've been thinking about reclaiming my Sunday as another work day, but I have to spend a lot of time caring for sick family (not corona) and I don't think I'd be able to keep a 5-day schedule.
I think the issue would be that it's a much larger undertaking to add in an extra day off, rather than simply shuffling around the current days off. Since he's talking about it at an individual level, working with the current amount of days off is doable, but changing the number of days off is more of a macro change
@@thetravelingmerchant1 youre assuming people are 100% productive during a 5 day workweek, theyre not. Research shows that 4 day work weeks have higher productivity because people are able to maintain higher energy levels for longer
@@thetravelingmerchant1 people are not 100% effective for those 5 days, but you would be more likely to be closer to 100% effective if you had a break in the middle of the work week.
literally not even a problem. all these people saying "we'll be more productive with a 4 day week" are right, but they're missing the point. productivity is at an all time high thanks to technological advances. even if we cut productivity by 20% everyone would still get more done in a day than anyone did in the 80s
@@thetravelingmerchant1 maybe. But that means we could employ more people, lowering unemployment rates, to make up the 20% loss. Still pay the same amount to everyone but actually get more done because people are more productive when coming off a day off (or 3) it gives the battery a recharge. Think about it. Your phone battery needs a specific time to charge, if you don't charge it all the way you can't use it 100% because it will die. Same thing with people.
I currently have this schedule for work. I work call center for Chase Credit cards and I love this schedule. 7:30am to 6:30pm Mon, Tues, Thur, Fri. 10 hour shifts, three 15 minutes breaks and an hour lunch. Best schedule I've ever had. On Monday and Thursday I'm refreshed because I was off today before. Tuesday and Friday I'm energized knowing I have tomorrow off. So in both directions I have encouragement to push through the day. It frees up a full week day to visit businesses that are only open weekdays if needed. And it gives me the full weekend to do events and trips. I highly recommend the schedule for others as well if they can get it.
I think this is the ultimate schedule for people that still need to work. I've seen the 3 day weekend model but I think combining the 2 day weekend with weekend Wednesday gives you the best of both worlds. No 5 straight days of work and you can party hard on Saturday without too much worry about the next morning.
Labor movements in the 20th century thought the workweek would shrink continuously as technology improved and society became more efficient. The average laborer (say, in manufacturing) had a 70-hour workweek in 1850, a 60-hour workweek in 1900, a 40-hour work week in 1950, but then we've been stuck with the same 40-hour = full-time ever since. People literally started fighting for the 8-hour day in 1817, and it took over 100 years to be achieved, but now that we've got it surely we can all see that we can do better? Or are we no more imaginative or hopeful than literal peasants during the French Revolution? It's time to demand 4 hours per day, 4 days a week!
As a person who gets Saturday School and only gets Sunday as a weekend, i confirm losing Weekend Saturday *(that i never got)* for a Weekend Wednesday is a win-win
@@somebodyrandom8659 Yea i used to have Sunday School too But some jobs does let their workers a day o rest too, so should children. That’s why my school canceled Sunday School
@@tomato4535 same, but I do a hybrid schedule. We have half days because if they had in person school for 5 hours they are legally obliged to have lunch. But my weekends are still taken over with homework
4 day on, 3 day off, 6 hour work days on average (doing work you enjoy) is an absolute ideal. I'd never want to retire from that - gladly do that till the day I die.
Had the Wednesday free schedule during online classes, but Saturday's and Sundays were still free too. Homework was much more relaxing and fulfilling when you weren't bombarded with exams and information everyday, and we got the chance to do them at our own pace.
I must be one of those outlier people because I used to do that exact schedule for a long time and I felt like I NEVER got rest. The one single day off between work stints never felt like I had a day off because I was always recuperating and always busy doing things like shopping that I couldn't do during the work week. But the traditional weekend let me feel much more rested without having the looming next few days of work over me. Now if it was Sat/Sun AND Wednesday off then absolutely.
Two days off in a row is a luxury for me. CGP even points out that it's hard to relax on Sunday knowing that work is tomorrow. Weekend Wednesday gives you that dread on all your days off.
I ALWAYS had split days off while working retail, and it was freaking EXHAUSTING. the schedule changed every single week, and two days off together, almost NEVER happened. I hated it soooo much.
@@knz730 quite, though there is some truth to what he says... Back in High School we had a Late Start every Wednesday due to teacher conferences so they could communicate with each other, but we still got off around the same time. It was only an hour or so later, but that extra time felt AMAZING to help us perk back up in the middle of the week. At least it did me. So... Maybe not a third day off on Wednesday, but a short day?
There is a substantial amount of evidence suggesting that a 4 day week actually improves worker productivity and either fully compensates for the additional day off or even improves overall productivity compared to a five day week. Humans are notoriously bad at maintaining focus over long periods. By allowing for frequent short breaks during the day as well as frequent periods of rest throughout the week the productivity of employees at their jobs is at its peak and workers feel happier overall.
Working from home: every day slowly turns into a day off as your motivation declines by the second. Now every day is a weekend except you feel guilty and miserable because you're useless. Yeah... that's my situation right now
That hit way too close to home. I work 100% from home mon-fri but due to being on the IT OPS team, I frequently have to work on Sundays to implement changes. Meaning I really work 6 days a week, but most of the time that I am "working" during the week is actually goofing off on youtube and feeling guilty about my productivity... So in essence you: 1) Are always "working" 2) Simultaneously never REALLY working 3) Miserable :)
@@Joel-ew1zm yeah I’m literally the same. Studying computer science at uni, got all these assignments I should be doing but instead I’m sat here watching fucking UA-cam and feeling guilty lol. Sometimes I have a burst of productivity but it doesn’t last any longer than about 2 days
You literallly just explained how horrible this idea is before even pitching it. Now every day off is a collapse day that also has the next work day looming over it. It's the worst of both worlds
Can confirm. I tried this once at a job where I was able to choose my schedule. It was great.. For about 2 months. Then I just started to feel like I was always at work and never had any time to truly relax
I don't think it will necessarily play out like that. The reason why the next work day is looming over you is because you have to go through 5 work days until your next break. With this schedule, after every break, you only have 2 or 3 days until your next break, so it wouldn't really loom over you as much.
Yeah, it's literally just two Sundays. While we still can appreciate Sundays as you don't have to do anything, you have to deal with not being able to sleep late at night due to not being able to sleep in during the morning and let's be real here, Sunday is rather mid just because it's a weekend that doesn't FEEL like it. You don't have responsibilities, but you don't have carefreeness, and without another weekend before Sunday, it's just zero carefreeness except on the buzzling Friday later on in the day.
If you don't have time to get days off you're not organizing yourself properly. Maybe you're wasting too much time on the phone, maybe you don't focus that much. I take weekends off and study only in weekdays and I'm doing just fine
@@Blueee51 Well phones, the computer, whatever that is meant to keep you hooked in by design, be it UA-cam, social media or videogames. It's so easy to waste time there, speaking from experience
@@CamaradaArdi that would be leisure. In other words a break, something your supposed to do on your day off. The point was that when schools give homework over the weekend they are essentially nullifying the days off.
Yep, just work 10 hour days on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday if you have to put in the hours to make 40, otherwise just do the work until it is done on those specific days.
@@aketchupman5103 The only issue is that companies don't want to do this while paying workers a living wage, even if it does make workers more productive. In other words, we need some sort of action that forces companies to do it.
@@kenofjustice212 6 hour workdays are the way to go, basically every organization that tries it gets a permanent increase in production AND innovation.
I don't think that's crazy. We had a 6 day work week for literally centuries and having 5 seemed crazy then, but that's not what the data on productivity says
I think it should what you propose, but making Thursday also off, so that there is a true weekend. Two days work…one day off…two days work…weekend…etc.
Four day work week used to be a thing in the 70s, but they stagflate. Here's a better solution for employers: Four day work week, hire a second shift to work on the other 3 days. Every position has 2 employees. Both receive the same benefits, but the 3 day guy gets paid 75% of the 4 day guy. Tie it with the demands of wage increase, then shove normally 2 weeks of work (normally done Monday-Friday, then another Monday-Friday, 10 days sub par energy) into one. It's a win-win to literally EVERYONE. Business & services literally operated all week without overworking their employees, employees got, well, all. I can also tied it to other policies that, in US context, would encourage better welfare state. No, even in this current stage of tech, human labor is still needed a lot. Lump of labor fallacy makes sure that it won't be 45% unemployment, more like 20%.
In poorly designed studies. Of course the workers on the 4 day work week kept up pace with those on the 5 day. They want it to be permanent. The only way to get real data on workplace phenomenon is to make a permanent change, then watch, then roll back
@@flakgun153 It's actually because people are exhausted at work and they just waste their time normally. At basically every job I've ever had 3:30 is about the last point in a day where much useful work gets done. 11:30-12 is also basically a wash. On a Friday nothing gets done all day *except* for 3:30-5. A shorter work week, and shorter days for that matter, means people can work faster and work better and this has been shown time and time again over the last century and a half of fighting tooth and nail for every second of free time for working people.
@@flakgun153 Clearly you miss the OP's point, and what would the problem be if the employees "want it to be permanent"? Employee satisfaction is not a negative influence effect to control for, but a favorable outcome. Or do you not realize happier employees are more productive? If its an hourly position, trading time for money at 40 hours per week, why is a 10 hr x 4 shifts vs 8 hr x 5 shifts a problem? I've managed several 24x7 service oriented operations where this was very effective, as I would have transition time with staffing overlap time rather than holding people over for administrative work or training. The 8x5 format is an artifact of the manual assembly line business structure staffing for x number of assembly stations, looking to minimize labor costs... Or perhaps your a proponent of "pay for 40 hrs, but you must be here 45+ hrs" structure?
There is a high level of satisfaction of being able to make it to Friday and there being two entire days off ahead of you. Relaxing. Chill. You can just sit back and forget about whatever (unless it’s a multi-week school project).
That's what my university does, I get Monday morning, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday all free. The rest is lessons from 9am until 5 or 6pm. Just 3.5 days of lessons a week. I love it.
I've tried both Wednesday off (together with Saturday and Sunday, not instead of one of them) and Monday off (basically a longer weekend), half a year each. I prefer the longer weekend to be honest. The free Wednesday often felt like wasting a day. I was never really able to take my mind off of work, constantly thinking about things I wanted to do the next day. It never felt as a real day off. The free Monday on the other hand was very relaxing. It allowed me to actually feel refreshed after my weekends. It also allowed my to go on small vacations whenever I wanted, without it feeling like I was there for 15 minutes and already needed to go back home again. That made my vacations a lot more relaxed, since I no longer felt the need to constantly rush to see everything.
I had free Mondays for one year during college, and my take on it is that it took the weight off the dreaded "start of the week" that Mondays are known for, so I felt way better emotionally speaking than when I had other days of the week free
I'd actually advocate to push this further to the 9/80 schedule which I very much like. Every other weekend is 3 days and feels like a bonus treat and honestly a 9 hour day doesn't feel much different than an 8 hour day to me. Even more important, you can actually do significant multi-day projects and trips on those 3-day weekends making them feel more akin to a vacation than just a break.
@@diamondflaw - Seriously, everyone, including Grey, who is advocating for a new work week schedule that does not include reducing the 40 hour work week is nuts. 8 hour (or less) days. 4 days a week. If that's not what you're talking, then quit talking.
My school actually did something like this last year. We had remote wednesdays where we would do some fun activities on zoom with the teachers and the work they gave us was very minimal. That was honestly the best part of last year
My school did something the same, they started it out as is being off and then we just do schoolwork at our own pace, and then they brought it to just half days when people could actually be in school
In my school we had a day off on Wednesdays for two times a month which was in online school so we get to catch up on some missing work and it felt like a weekend :D
Honestly, having worked like this in retail world, this definitely falls into the ‘it’s alright for Grey, terrible for everyone else’ category. I can see if you are working self-employed, in a creative role, to your own schedules, and with no deadlines, bosses, or specified hours, this might be okay. But for most jobs, this just ends up feeling like you never get a break - your one day off is spend dreading (or at least preparing for) a return to work, and no space to decompress completely. It is stressful as all hell 🥵
If you guys paid attention to the vid he was strongly recommending it to the self employed and students. He just said that companies should try it out if everyone is on board, and he even said it doesn’t always work and thats fine.
The only thing is though, if you’re planning something like an overnight trip that takes 2 days, you can’t do it anymore because the weekends are split,
thats right man the biggest problem with this is that the one day "weekend" is too short and you dont have time to rest and do other things in the same time .
As someone who worked this literal schedual, it sucks a lot. The day off(wednesday) doesn't feel like a day off cause you're resting from the last 2 days and on Sunday, you're resting from the last three days. This schedual sucked the soul out of me, only had time to sleep and clean a little bit and sleep again, I was lucky if I made it to a store. If you want to hang out with friends you can't stay out to late cause, oop, you gotta in 12 hours. Honestly I work the avg 5 day, 8 hours a day schedual but 4 days working and three days off is the way to go, perfect schedual tbh
@@Pelarnis He said, "Do you know what I'm going through? I have a child to take care in the middle of a divorce, I've got a hundred other letters I need to respond to. The stress of being in charge of so much is nothing you could know. I'm sorry to say that I won't step down."
My high school made our Wednesdays completely asynchronous and kept weekends, and I can't even begin to explain how helpful it was! The teachers could establish short office hours and students could work if they wanted, but they were often encouraged to go outside and take a break, which made Thursday and Friday feel just as fresh as a new week! I just hope more places adopt this, I think a lot of it this year is just an exception for COVID protocols
YES! My school did a similar thing with Wednesdays while we were working from home. Wednesdays were for non-academic things like assembly, class meeting, etc. so 9-11 you sat through a few zoom meetings, and the rest of the day was off. Amazing how much better it made Thursday and Friday feel.
@@AkshayAradhya We had to check in with homeroom on zoom but otherwise it was all just assignments. Even then teachers were disincentivized from making things due on Wednesdays, so it was practically a day off
I'd rather have weekend + wednesday. In a time where people increasingly feel that they don't have a good work-life balance, then why not split the working week 4:3 instead of 5:2?
YES exactly who put down in law that you had to work 5 days with only 2 off? Surely 4/3 would be better. It's 2020 damnit we have computers and robots now.
Really man then what is a weeekend if there are no work days? Yeah it sucks but without at least a few days of work a weekend is nothing I mean we could have Weds off and Fri off at the most.
7 days weekend would be an absolute horror. Sure we wouldn't work, but then, no one would be obtaining any money, so you will practically live pretty miserably. No lights, no water, heck, you'll need to rob food if you wanna even remotely survive
@@xavier84623 I do 9 hour days and get every other friday off and it's been pretty nice. That gets me up to 80 every 2 weeks. I think 9 hour 4 day weeks, whether it be 3 day weekends or wednesdays off, and just pulling the work week down to 36 hours would be a totally fair trade.
I have to say I've been working this schedule for a little over 3 months now and I don't really get that. In fact it's funny my Tuesdays have begin feeling like Fridays where I drag the most and Saturdays I feel like I could even work another day. I would recommend giving it a shot. Another bonus is every single holiday that falls on any day but Friday doubles your weekend. National holiday on a Tuesday or Thursday are no longer a waste but a fun mini vacation.
I actually have this schedule already and I can confirm that it does work this way. I teach a one hour ballet class on Wednesday in the middle of the work day so I just don't work that day. I work Mon, Tues, Wed (just for the one volunteer class) then Thurs, Fri, Sat and having something on Wed makes me feel like that day was still valuable. I love working because of this.
A major benefit of having two consecutive weekends is that you can do something such as going out on a trip and not have to worry about being back on the same day, I feel like he really should have touched on that.
This totally ignores the benefits of having a 2-day-long weekend. If sometimes you want to do something more interesting in the weekend, it is often useful to have one day to do it and one day to rest, especially when you have a family, and a normal picnic in the countryside feels as tiring as a 1000m hike.
@@Darkfoot21 No, that's why he put the hyphens where he did, to specify that he was talking about a weekend that is two days long, as opposed to a long weekend.
Totally agree! When I used to work in call centers, during the shift bids I always tried to get the 4 10s with Wed/Sat/Sun off. You never work more than two days in a row. For my ADHD brain that is easily overwhelmed, it was amazing! I couldn't do Wed and only Sat. I feel like I can't get anything done with only one day at a time off. I say that from decades of experience working in restaurants and retail.
agreed. When you have only 1 day off and then go back to work you spend that one day doing stuff like grocery shopping, laundry, cleaning the house. Then you are just as tired going back to work. A 4 day work week is already more efficient for everyone possible, but no company wants to start it because it requires slightly more man power, but the same amount of money.
my current job is like this. i dont have a set schedule, and i dont know what i'll be working the next week until the friday before. typically i do get two days off scheduled at some point during the week, but they're never next to each other, and i usually get called in on one of them anyway. so i can have anywhere from 4 to 12 days without a break. before this though, i did have a set schedule with two days off next to each other (thursday friday) but i loved that job so much that during vacation weeks when we needed more staff i would sometimes work 2-3 weeks 8hrs a day without taking a single day off. honestly i think it comes down to how much you like your job and how much you're able to cope with its demands rather than how many and when you have days off. if you're doing something that you really, really hate, i dont think any amount of rescheduling breaks and all that would be able to help. i hate my current job and even if i got more days off or moved to a set schedule, it would still be exhausting.
And I work shifts. 3 weeks on (12h days) and then 3 weeks of. Year around. And on top of that I have 25 holidays to take out if I choose to. Which I do, of course.
Tradionally, in my country, Wednesday afternoon was an afternoon off, originally for church. I'm 44 and I remember some shops being closed on Wednesday afternoons. That is mostly gone now, but it's still maintained in most primary schools. No school on Wednesday afternoons. That means that that afternoon can be spent on larger activities that would otherwise be more like a Saturday thing. Also, because there's no school on Wednesday afternoons, many parents don't work on Wednesdays, because child daycare would be very expensive that day, with so little school hours. As a result, a lot of businesses are somewhat on hold on Wednesdays. That turns the Wednesday into mini weekend, and it makes it easier to get through the week, especially for children. So it's not an entirely new idea.
@@maxhuneeus7211 well I don't think you realize the state most American business are in just to give you a idea Even some OIL companies are going bankrupt when black gold isn't even cutting it that's when you know most business are screwed The only ones that are growing like crazy are tech companies such as Google Netflix ETC
When I have to do school from Monday to Friday, work all day Saturday, and have extra maths and English on Sunday but my teachers tell me ‘not to stress because it’s bad for my mental health’: 👁👄👁
People who work 4 days to begin with, chuckles im in danger. After a certain point money gets more and more meaningless, if you can afford it (dnt forget pention etc) i can promote it :)
We have more people in the workforce than ever, I feel like we should be able to swing a third day off. It’s lunacy how hard everyone is expected to work to make a regular living in todays time.
I can't say for your place but where I live we have a work force shortage. Too many jobs not enough workers. I have worked two jobs where in each one I have been given tasks outside of my area of expertise because they needed someone to do it.
@@Kingcoolbat This is almost always caused by shitty management, in my experience. Anytime there's a workers shortage at a company, its typically due to bad rumors about said position head.
@WhyPlayPiano Can't agree with that for me. I had direct link with my boss to get me some help. They never could find anyone willing and able to do the job for a long period. It's mostly like this because again there's jobs everywhere here as we don't have a large workforce to begin with. Talking more jobs then their are people here.
How dare you? In less then 5 minutes you've made me fall in love with an idea unattainable for the near future, and now I must get everyone I have access to hooked on this same idea so that maybe, in months future, I'll be able to truly rest. Tl;dr love the video, love the idea, but I'm currently employed as a grunt worker with no way of sharing this with a high enough executive to achieve it
If your boss likes it he can share it with his boss, and then it might get where it needs to go. Or in 7 day a week retail coverage type situation you can just request a split weekend on your standard schedule.
I think the week should go like this: Mon (work) Tue (work) Wed (break) Thu (work) Fri (work) Sat (break) Sun (break) And maybe Monday should be weekend too idk
@@ShebbaYoung If I want to go to a pub or bar with my gf/friends and maybe get a little smashed, if I just have one day off, the next work day I'll be all fucked up and because I didn't properly rest to cure my hangover, maybe even the second day after it I'll still be feeling bad and messing up my work productivity. Whereas if I had a 4 day work week with 3 days of rest, everything would be way cooler, hahaha.
Not just camping. Having 2 days off in a row has a lot of benefits in other areas. Also, the part of the video where he talks about having Wednesday off, making places much less crowded is very true, but then you're stuck having to get to bed Friday night (when all your friends and family are having fun), and having to work Saturday when most events, family, friends, and many other things are going on and doing stuff. Although different from "weekend wednesday", I worked a job where my schedule was Friday-Sunday (yup, only three days a week) 4am-4pm. It was the worst. I'd get to bed thursday night around 8-9pm, get home from work friday around 4:30, then go to bed a few hours later, and repeat that the next two days. Monday-Thursday, i was sitting around bored all day because nobody else could do anything, because they were working!!!
You can do it for over half of the year using paid leave, some people take off lots of Fridays. That means giving up on taking any annual holidays abroad though.
Hi Grey! I saw this video randomly on Reddit earlier this year and started taking Weekend Wednesdays and it has changed my life, giving me so much more balance. I found your videos on UA-cam yesterday and just realized that were the one who changed my life. Thank you for the marvelous idea. Luckily for me though...I still have Saturday and Sunday off, too. 😎
JRMCNEA Gray’s method is 2 on 1 off 3 on 1 off, terrible in my opinion. But 2 on 1 off 2 on 1 off is fantastic the workweek should be reduced to 32 hours anyway
Sunday feels so bad because you know you’re going to work for the next five consecutive days. Sunday won’t feel as bad if you know that your Monday is followed by a Friday.
You were SO close, soso close just had to keep Saturday off. Make it a 4-3 schedule instead, and we can even expand on the off-cycle by making one “group” (i guess depending on your employer) take off on wednesday, saturday, and sunday, with the other taking off tuesday, wednesday, and saturday. That way there are still days everyone is working, days half of us are working, and days where none of us are working. That way making plans with people would work out regardless of their schedule (because everyone takes off wednesday and saturday) while doing things while half of us work is still a possibility (like the DMV or theme park examples). I feel like this would be absolutely ideal for jobs that require rigid scheduling/school. This might be perfect
GALL0WSHUM0R That’s why taking Wednesday off while keeping the 2-day weekend is my preferred solution! My employer agreed to an “alternate Wednesdays off” schedule, and I took a 10% pay cut. I swear I did 95% work for 90% pay, but it was still a win for me: those off-cycle days off are priceless! My stress level went way down. This was my first step toward early retirement. Highly recommended. 🙌
@@Andynory but you have to take into account that 4 work days may mean longer work hours on those days. After 10+ hours of work I personally would be too tired to go out.
@@berkrullah yeah that's how it is at the job I work at rn, it's 3 days of 12 hour shifts and one 6 hour shift. It's great give me so much time to relax and get ready for the next week
Literally. The point of a weekend for me is that Saturday you can go to sleep late and wake up late without worrying about tomorrow, and Sunday you can sleep late and do some other stuff. Having Wednesday off just means “I still have to wake up at the same time because I’ll ruin my schedule, and I can’t do anything fun out late because I have work tomorrow…”
Wednesdays always feel great because tomorrow is Thursday which means the next day is Friday, and after Friday you can have a break. Wednesday is truly the neutral day of the week
yeah but all grey does is work and sit at home so for HIM this idea makes sense. he takes pride in being a homebody which is great but its not healthy or sustainable for most people to live like Grey
Having two days off in a row does have the advantage of potentially being able to do things that take more than one day without asking for an extra day off. Go visit mom and dad, stay the night, come back the next day. Or tackle a weekend project that you'd rather not have interrupted. Is that important enough to scrap weekend Wednesday? Eh, not for me, but I could see it
@@jacklevenstein9305 I mean...some people don't really have much time off, you know. Also I wasn't calling him an idiot (why would you insult someone, anyways?); I was mostly agreeing with him but exploring another aspect of the discussion
Yeah but you can always go see mom and dad on the night before, stay for the night and go back on the afternoon/night on the day after. You still have 1 day off, you've just maximized your time spent, instead of waking up at noon on Saturday, getting ready for the trip the whole noon and finally going on the afternoon, then sleeping there and then going home on the next morning
@@jacklevenstein9305 Agreed. I've worked jobs where I didn't get my two days off together, and it certainly wasn't rejuvenating. In fact, it was far more draining because it felt like my work weeks rolled into work MONTHS. I wasn't properly rested until I got two days off in a row. Now, I work a job with 12-hour shifts that's 3 days on, 3 days off, and this schedule (aside from the fact that it's rotating shift work) has been the most relaxing I've had for time off.
There’s a huge, HUGE advantage to having two days off in a row though. It’s a great feeling when you don’t have to work the next day but you also spent the current day not working. And it helps if you want to do things like *travel places* , which, if we’re honest, we still do and still enjoy.
this, when you have one day off, all you want to do is relax, but when you know there is another day of the next day, you want to do something, like go somewhere with our friends or clean up your room. And that's much more important for mental health than having 2x1 day off, we are not machines after all that only live for work. (that's my experience, I work 6 days a week with one day off, so a free weekend feels like a full vacation.
The pure relaxation of knowing that today is free. Not only lunch and afternoom but all of today including the evening and sleeping in the day after is free. With one day, you always have work looming over you
@@thefareplayer2254 Must be the difference in countries then. Most listings I see have about 25 a year or some kind of % of hours worked that works out to the rough equivalent. So you can do a two-and-a-half week holiday and 5 weekend-trips for example each year. And that is still within paid days.
Same here - and based on how much productivity has gone up we are really far overdue a shortening of the workweek. Wednesday off is probably a better alternative to the 6-hour workday.
@@TheAmericanPrometheus I have a 4 day week. 2 days on, 1 off, 2 on, 2 off. I love a day off in the week to get a rest and bothersome chores done like have the electrician in to fix the boiler. The 2 days off let me go away, stay out late or just have a social life!
@@TheAmericanPrometheus employers and business owners have been reaping the rewards of more efficient production for well over a century. It's time they shared it with the labour force.
Always been in support of having either or both four day work weeks and/or six hour work days. Productivity, ethic, morale, and overall happiness practically skyrocket under these conditions. I understand having enough people to work the times the business is open can be difficult. But, here's a thought... have you tried not having every meeting at 7am? Perhaps important business meetings should be around noon instead, when people are more awake and attentive? Perhaps being open 24hr isn't the best idea for your employees? Those six people who shop past 10pm will learn to shop at more reasonable hours. No need to worry about lost income
I disagree with the idea this poses that you're losing work energy at a consistent rate every day you're at work too, it doesn't matter to me if I've been to work one day in a row, or two days in a row, or five. after the first one I'm already tired but I'd much rather maintain that rhytm and get to the weekend so I can take off a full day of complete recovery mode and then have an entire day off to do whatever I want. Letting people pick and choose which one they would prefer also wouldn't really work irl, I think, considering how incompetent most middle managers can be.
@TheWhiteStone it's actually not like that. When you have two days off in a row, the _first_ day is hampered by recovering from your workweek and the _second_ day is tainted by the knowledge that you're going back tomorrow. When your days off are split throughout the week, they become equal. Yes you are _always_ going back to work "tomorrow" and that makes it just part of the routine. Plus, don't discount the effect it has on the portion of the adjacent workday you did get off. For example, if you work mornings, the day before off is THE time to start recharging, since tomorrow you get to sleep in and wake up fully rested instead of having to set the alarm clock to get up.
@@Stratelier So according to your explanation, both of your days off are hampered by recovery AND tainted by the knowledge that you have work tomorrow. That seems awful. Never mind if you actually have things to do and errands to run on your days off. That's why consecutive weekend days work well...if I happen to have something to I need to do in my time off, it's okay because I still have another day to rest before I've got to slog it back to work. Ask anyone who has ever worked a crappy job with a variable schedule that your bosses dictate. This bright idea only seems good to people that haven't had to cram everything into the one day off they've got in between workdays.
Tangential question of mine: are we at all confident that 7 day cycles create the best work-rest rythms?
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No, but the four workday movement isn't particularly strong atm. The five out of seven isn't some magical number, neither is 8 hrs rest 8 hrs work 8 hrs leisure. It's all things unions worked towards. With productivity rising substantially and wages stagnating it should follow that we get to work less, but alas the overlords say no, work more, hey your co-workers has done more hours wtf are you doing.
@@PhoenixClank same lol
I think its that way, because if work days were on a cycle independent of the calendar week, it’d be really confusing. And you can’t really dismantle the 7 day week since literal billions of people organize their religious life according to it. Just ask the French revolutionaries, people don’t like you messing with the week.
Happy 9e. Fructidor.
But what if, listen to me here, what if we just made Wednesday an off day and keep Saturday too?
But what if, listen to me here, you have a 50 hour work per week?
@@jfp0763 then you're being explored and need to overthrow capitalism
@@Kikoberserk Not if you agreed to a 50-hour work-week
@@TheLastArchive then you're just stupid or being forced to "agree" cause you have no bargaining power
@@Kikoberserk No one's forcing you to agree to anything. If you don't want to work a 50 hour week, then don't?
The best part of the weekend is definitely friday evening
why not saturday evening?
@@San-lh8us Its when youre contemplating all the work you have to do tommorrow that you've put off on Saturday. On Friday evening? No worries, no thoughts, no nothing. Just bliss.
this statement is 200% fact
Exactly. You know you have two full days ahead...
absolutely amen
I feel like this man was SO CLOSE to coming to the conclusion that we need 4 day work weeks.
And we do
no we dont
stolen literally word for word
@@RegoXera yes we do you're lying
@@astrylleaf Not everyone is lucky like you to have 4 day work weeks
How about weekend Wednesday but Saturday and Sunday are still no work days. That way you work 4 days a week and relax 3 days a week. Now that would be something
That's my current schedule, it's pretty awesome.
I work 12 hr shifts mon-thurs and it works out pretty well
That would work with my current contract and still it harldy ever happens. If it does, it is awesome though.
That's how I'd run hahaha
But to work the 45-50 weekly hours, you need to work more than 11 hours PER DAY
Or try the PhD schedule, 80-hour, 6-day weeks!
try the quarantine schedule, 7 day weekends.
Lmao
Lol
@@deletedaccount20384 lmao is like lol
Wtf
I dont understand u
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L M A O is an acronym
This brings a whole new meaning to "it is wednesday my dudes"
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This is a hard disagree from me. I feel the MAIN issue of the weekend still isnt addressed which is not having time to do the things you couldnt do during the week (clean, grocery, etc) AND have time to recharge. I think most people feel not that the work week is too long, but the weekend is too short. A 3 day weekend solves this almost flawlessly
Couldn't have said better myself I think that school/work tend to forget that we have other things going on at weekends what makes it worse is that they may even try to give you more work at home in the weekends and when you tell somebody that you can't rest they say "oh but you had all of the weekend to rest" and when you need more time to work "oh but you had all of the weekend to finish that work"
@@Fools_Blade This man is just spitting facts.
@@Choukai_Chan agreed
@@Zenix. agreed
But that would automatically cut productivity down by 20% unless you have 10 hour work days
I wish weekends were actually a day off instead of just a day of studying at home because youve got a bunch of assignments, teachers rely on the fact you’ll study during break days smh
Yea weekends usually are just sunday
yea can't wait to finish school to work, make money and have actual days off
But school homework isnt really much. In University you have to visit the courses, learn everything by yourself while having to do assignments and projects and follow up your readings. The actual free days begin once you start working.
I haven’t studied more then a few seconds for 2-4 years now
Yeah ikr smh
The big downside: this means I can't devote a day to "longform (social) entertainment" that may run for 5+ hours in the late afternoon or evening. (E.g. Game Night with friends) If I do it on the Saturday, I have to start late because of work, I'm already tired and don't have any time to do necessary hobby prep. If I do it on Sunday, I have work in the morning and have to cut things off early.
For people who enjoy clubbing or other noctural activities, this would be even worse since they're already tired from a work day going into it on the Saturday, and they just can't do it on the Sunday since they actually need to sleep.
Sean O'Farrell not a problem if your an introvert
With weekend Wednesday you could still technically do it.
Long night Tuesday and Saturday
haha introverting is funny haha
I'll agree with you there, there are many, albeit more rare, instances where the traditional weekend cycle does pose distinct advantages. As someone who grew up with separated parents, a weekend wednesday would have made it a nightmare to organize weekends with dad when only a single night at a time without school.
However, as mentioned in the video, it would be advantageous for only a portion of society to follow the weekend wednesday cycle, as it would mean that saturdays for those following traditional weekends would have more people working and fewer people shopping or doing errands than normal. Personally, I would like to follow the weekend wednesdays now that I am independent of my parents
True. But that's why he said it's not for everyone
Also, here's a little fun fact here:
I'm a salesman in a very tourist heavy state and my job heavily revolves around guests and tourists, and ALWAYS, ALWAYS, Wednesdays are the slowest most empty days. With the least amount of sales and least amount of customer interaction. It's always Wednesdays.
I work front desk at a hotel, and wednesdays are also slowest for me. Nobody really calling to check prices for a room, not really any walk ins, and there's usually not a lot of reservations for the day
@@elizabethdyer8127 yeah nobodies ever doing anything on Wednesdays, that's why I prefer my off days go be Tuesday Wednesday, so then I'll only work the busy days
It is Wednesday my dudes
Because it's hard to get a three-day long vacation. duh.
@@mjcortez2460 not really, especially if your vacation time works off of hours worked. And honestly, going to places on the weekdays, like a Wednesday when it's Uber slow, everything is cheaper :)
The worst day of the weekend isn't Saturday, it's Sunday. On Friday and Saturday you truly rest so when Sunday comes around and you have to prepare physically and mentally for a new week it just feels like too much.
Saturday the worst day of the week? Nobody ever said that
@@pr3ntki331 no as in the creator said that Saturday is the worst weekend. When in reality (as the commenter said) Sunday is the worst since you need to start preparing for the rest of the week.
Yeah, this just makes Sunday except now there's TWO OF THEM. The dread of Monday/Thursday is just stressing and makes you feel dreading whereas Saturday feels like a limitless day of opportunity. I think a 4-day week and 3-day weekend is the best schedule personally.
Weekend Wednesday is less "bipolar" for want of a better term. It means you never get the bad Sunday night/Monday morning feeling but it also means you never get the Friday high because you only ever have 1 day off ahead of you. I think weekend Wednesday would suck more overall
As a wise man once said: “it’s Wednesday my dudes”
The prophecy is being fulfilled
Awesome
A wise frog also said that
@@icedrago6500 a wise but drunk man also said that
@@romania5106 does he torture green men to other planets?
Saturday’s are better than Sundays, Sunday’s just makes me think of Monday
Sundays are my suicide days
@@anunfunnyfella7662 I DON'T KNOW WHY THEY ALWAYS FEEL SO DISMAL
@@riyak.7393 THUNDERSTORMS, CLOUDS, SNOW, AND A SLIGHT DRIZZLE
@@robloxplayer2585 SAMEEEE
In italy they give us so much weekend homework weekends are almost worst then the rest of the week
"It takes three days off just to feel like two days off and two days off feels like one day off"
He's speaking facts
@Leilan Kelly it's justin y.'s second account
so by extension one day off is like no day off
Honestly, summer break doesn't even feel like a break to me. Just more time to realize the slow coming of a new school year.
And then turns around and suggests a split weekend... like. Wtf is that?
Why are you here
hey, i tried this once! it sucked because i couldn't do anything with my family and every day off was a recharge day. it felt more like i was working nonstop
Damn. He did say that it wouldn't work for everyone. But that's alright. Experiment. See what works. I'm young though so I don't really know how flexible you can mind your hours. Anyway. Uuuh, gabagool
I assumed, the best part of the weekend is being able to stay up late at night without consequence. I feel like the best work week is 3 days off; Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday
@@yeetusdeletus8565 yep we should only have four day work weeks anyway it would only be better for society
"why didn't you come in today"
"It is Wednesday my dude"
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Schools: “I’m just gonna...
makes everyday of the week a school day.
isn't that illegal since a lot of people have sabbath on the weekend
according to old doraemon comics, japanese people in the 1980s work on saturdays and only have weekends on sundays
@@pluggothesluggo5509 ik, can't even imagine
Then i'll be absent for 52 days.
Teachers that assign schoolwork over the weekend designed to be done on both days bring me emotional pain to think about
This wouldn’t work in schools. Damn teachers would give a crap ton of homework on Tuesday.
YES
Yes. I have a free day on wednesday because i have more school time on the other days. And the teachers just give A LOT OF HOMEWORK. By the time im truly enjoying the day off, i have to sleep cause i have school the next day
Weekends just don’t work in schools, period. The teachers assign homework over the weekend and projects, and essentially means there is no break.
which is why schools should shift to having no homework. it's been shown in countries like finland to be much more effective lmao
@John Doe Not everyone has photographic memory.
I’m a janitor and i started working at a school before the summer. So we were doing summer work. Which means we only worked Monday-Thursday. Having a 3 day weekend is very nice and actually helped me recharge and felt better mentally
all janitors are buff strong gigachads
@@virturegd5247 fr
@@virturegd5247 so true
@@virturegd5247 they are so hot
does anyone else like kinda feel depressed on sunday cuz you feel like “i have to go to bed early” “tomorrow is school”
It is sunday night for me in florida about to go to bed :(
Yeah
@@dedmemes. sad
I think there is an actual term for this.
"Sunday Blues" is when you feel down because of the upcoming weekdays.
Yep, we should've updated our school system and work schedules cuz here we are, XXI century.
Schools be like: have fun on the weekends with the 5 assignments and projects you have to do then pass it on Monday!
*bruh*
Wait till college. Assignments are sometimes due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, meaning that you pretty much lose your Sunday’s.
@@howardbaxter2514 they do that on high school. At least at mine
Man, so often I try to finish my work on Friday so I have two days off, but I fail too often
Is the schoolwork actually hard and too much or y’all just slacking and complaining
@@lessgetit4841 no, it’s that difficult.
4x3 days is waaay better! Having 3 days off makes the other 4 sooo more productive, it’s amazing :)
I was so nervous before I started about potentially hating 10 hour shifts but I actually love them and I'll never go back to a 5 day work week, even with my plans to end up self employed in the future.
@@zacharyfissler where do you work?
@@zacharyfissler I love my 4x10 work. I get off at 3:30 Monday morning and I'm not back until 17:00 Thursday night. Means trips are easy, if a little off on normal people travel schedules (gotta love 24 hour diners and hotels with night clerks).
Try 1x6, that would be sooo productive
what about 5x3? I think that would work
In college we had 4-day weeks, and we’re the top uni in the Philippines, outperforming those that had 5-6 days a week. We had Wednesdays off, but also the entire weekend. It’s amazing what well timed rest can do
What university do you go to?
Lemme guess, UP?
Thats great!! it should be implemented in western education, Spain is studying implementing 4 works days as well. You're ahead of time😍
@Sidemen AFTV Clips & More Someone's ignorant
@Sidemen AFTV Clips & More This has got to be a troll
I've been thinking about this for years, the main problem is that you can't take 2-day trips and stuff like that; also, you'll be tired from work in every day you can stay up until late at night.
Is ok if you don’t like, if you can control your work schedule try different placements of off-days
That's not always true. You can stay up late on tuesdays and saturdays
Just take 3 days?
You could also have a free day on saturday. And I think this wouldn't be a huge problem because your general productivity and motivation would be higher.
Just swap Saturday and Sunday. Friday nights and Saturdays free.
Sunday I would work 9-6 which was ok but the rest of the week I worked 12-9. The hour long lunch is also amazing.
As for your two day trips, you can still have them, you’ll just use a little vacation time. Personally, I’ve found that such a short trip would neither be relaxing nor rewarding.
I was surprised to see no mention of the "4 day work week" model that has been actively discussed the past decade.
Far be it from you to cut corners though, so I have to ask.... have you also tried the 4 day work week? It seems like the sort of thing you'd try, at least for a while.
Assuming you did, how much more or less productive was it than the Wednesday Weekend model outlined in this video?
Grey is a bit of a workaholic, so I doubt he would've tried that for very long. He loves his job.
I do 4x10s and it's great. I currently opt for Fridays off, but honestly Wednesdays off seems like the best of both worlds. You still have your full weekend, plus the day off in the middle to break it up.
I'm currently self-employed and have been working 2PM-10PM (I can't function in the morning) MTThF. It works amazingly when my work is going well, but not as much when I have a big problem and have to really push to get through it. I just end up treating every day like a Thursday or Friday of a typical work week and just kinda waste time until I can "clock out". I've been thinking about reclaiming my Sunday as another work day, but I have to spend a lot of time caring for sick family (not corona) and I don't think I'd be able to keep a 5-day schedule.
This sounds a lot like the 4 hour work week that was being hailed as the inevitable result of technology and automation decades ago.
I think the issue would be that it's a much larger undertaking to add in an extra day off, rather than simply shuffling around the current days off.
Since he's talking about it at an individual level, working with the current amount of days off is doable, but changing the number of days off is more of a macro change
Nah i want my time off in chunks so i can enjoy it better. Weekend wednesday means you never have that friday night/saturday morning feeling
I feel like this man was SO CLOSE to coming to the conclusion that we need 4 day work weeks
@@thetravelingmerchant1 youre assuming people are 100% productive during a 5 day workweek, theyre not. Research shows that 4 day work weeks have higher productivity because people are able to maintain higher energy levels for longer
@@thetravelingmerchant1 people are not 100% effective for those 5 days, but you would be more likely to be closer to 100% effective if you had a break in the middle of the work week.
we do!
literally not even a problem. all these people saying "we'll be more productive with a 4 day week" are right, but they're missing the point. productivity is at an all time high thanks to technological advances. even if we cut productivity by 20% everyone would still get more done in a day than anyone did in the 80s
@@thetravelingmerchant1 maybe. But that means we could employ more people, lowering unemployment rates, to make up the 20% loss. Still pay the same amount to everyone but actually get more done because people are more productive when coming off a day off (or 3) it gives the battery a recharge.
Think about it. Your phone battery needs a specific time to charge, if you don't charge it all the way you can't use it 100% because it will die. Same thing with people.
Maybe this is why Sisyphus can’t ever get the rock to the top of the mountain, he doesn’t have Weekend Wednesday
Nice
@@schrodingerscat3919 are you dead or not?
@@yaboyboris7607 Yes
@@theemreunal thanks for clarifying.
@@yaboyboris7607 Well maybe not though
4 days for work: Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri.
3 days for R&R: Wed, Sat, Sun.
I currently have this schedule for work. I work call center for Chase Credit cards and I love this schedule. 7:30am to 6:30pm Mon, Tues, Thur, Fri. 10 hour shifts, three 15 minutes breaks and an hour lunch. Best schedule I've ever had.
On Monday and Thursday I'm refreshed because I was off today before. Tuesday and Friday I'm energized knowing I have tomorrow off. So in both directions I have encouragement to push through the day.
It frees up a full week day to visit businesses that are only open weekdays if needed. And it gives me the full weekend to do events and trips. I highly recommend the schedule for others as well if they can get it.
I think this is the ultimate schedule for people that still need to work. I've seen the 3 day weekend model but I think combining the 2 day weekend with weekend Wednesday gives you the best of both worlds. No 5 straight days of work and you can party hard on Saturday without too much worry about the next morning.
Same here. And I wholeheartedly agree to Thomas' comment.
Labor movements in the 20th century thought the workweek would shrink continuously as technology improved and society became more efficient. The average laborer (say, in manufacturing) had a 70-hour workweek in 1850, a 60-hour workweek in 1900, a 40-hour work week in 1950, but then we've been stuck with the same 40-hour = full-time ever since. People literally started fighting for the 8-hour day in 1817, and it took over 100 years to be achieved, but now that we've got it surely we can all see that we can do better? Or are we no more imaginative or hopeful than literal peasants during the French Revolution? It's time to demand 4 hours per day, 4 days a week!
@@bidaubadeadieu So true! There have even been studies that productivity actually rises with a 4-day work week.
As a person who gets Saturday School and only gets Sunday as a weekend, i confirm losing Weekend Saturday *(that i never got)* for a Weekend Wednesday is a win-win
@@somebodyrandom8659 Yea i used to have Sunday School too
But some jobs does let their workers a day o rest too, so should children. That’s why my school canceled Sunday School
@@somebodyrandom8659 AHHAHA I GENUINELY CANT TELL IF YOURE JOKING😨
My college worked that way, with no classes on Wednesdays. It worked for us.
That pfp is cruel
yea same
Without two days off in a row, you can’t take a mini-trip though.
You can always do a little bit of lsd tuesday/saturday night
@@sike024 he meant a road trip dummy 😂
You also can't stay the night at someone house
You missed the point of the video, but yes you can't
Radium_ red you can Saturday night and maybe tueseday if you’re friend is free on Wednesday too
School Assignments: *Hippity Hoppity your weekend is now my property*
Our school is halfday EVERYDAY
its online school btw
@@tomato4535 same, but I do a hybrid schedule. We have half days because if they had in person school for 5 hours they are legally obliged to have lunch. But my weekends are still taken over with homework
@@smoothyoda3581 yeah thats kinda how ours works but not totaly
my suggestion : do mass riot and protest.
Then when you don’t do some of the work because you actually have a life they’re all BUT YOU HAD 2 DAYS?!!!?!
I’d still prefer Wednesday off and then also having Saturday and Sunday off. 4 day work week with 3 days off
Well my school is doing just that and I love it
@@patrickmartin3322 same
4 day on, 3 day off, 6 hour work days on average (doing work you enjoy) is an absolute ideal. I'd never want to retire from that - gladly do that till the day I die.
Nah i would prefer 6 days off
@@patrickmartin3322 in mine we gotta go every day but sunday
Had the Wednesday free schedule during online classes, but Saturday's and Sundays were still free too. Homework was much more relaxing and fulfilling when you weren't bombarded with exams and information everyday, and we got the chance to do them at our own pace.
I must be one of those outlier people because I used to do that exact schedule for a long time and I felt like I NEVER got rest. The one single day off between work stints never felt like I had a day off because I was always recuperating and always busy doing things like shopping that I couldn't do during the work week. But the traditional weekend let me feel much more rested without having the looming next few days of work over me.
Now if it was Sat/Sun AND Wednesday off then absolutely.
I actually think Grey is the outlier here. Lots of retail/hospo workers have a schedule more similar to this, many loathe it.
Two days off in a row is a luxury for me. CGP even points out that it's hard to relax on Sunday knowing that work is tomorrow. Weekend Wednesday gives you that dread on all your days off.
@@Ozzyman11 yes, i only have one day off per week most of the time, so a full weekend feels like a full vacation
I ALWAYS had split days off while working retail, and it was freaking EXHAUSTING. the schedule changed every single week, and two days off together, almost NEVER happened. I hated it soooo much.
@@knz730 quite, though there is some truth to what he says... Back in High School we had a Late Start every Wednesday due to teacher conferences so they could communicate with each other, but we still got off around the same time. It was only an hour or so later, but that extra time felt AMAZING to help us perk back up in the middle of the week. At least it did me.
So... Maybe not a third day off on Wednesday, but a short day?
Can I vote for three days of break, consisting of Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday? I promise I can compensate for Wednesday's work the other four days.
Why not Friday Saturday and Sunday weekends
J Hebert same reasons he said wednesday is better in the video for productivity and overall energy
This is ever 9 year old dream
Well, the idea is not about add one more day off. It is about making the best out of current off days(which is 2 d/w).
There is a substantial amount of evidence suggesting that a 4 day week actually improves worker productivity and either fully compensates for the additional day off or even improves overall productivity compared to a five day week.
Humans are notoriously bad at maintaining focus over long periods. By allowing for frequent short breaks during the day as well as frequent periods of rest throughout the week the productivity of employees at their jobs is at its peak and workers feel happier overall.
Working from home: every day slowly turns into a day off as your motivation declines by the second. Now every day is a weekend except you feel guilty and miserable because you're useless. Yeah... that's my situation right now
Yeah I feel you. Procrastinating right now in fact because motivation is at an all time low
oof... hit way closer to home than it should
@@cenowador *PUN INTENDED*
That hit way too close to home. I work 100% from home mon-fri but due to being on the IT OPS team, I frequently have to work on Sundays to implement changes. Meaning I really work 6 days a week, but most of the time that I am "working" during the week is actually goofing off on youtube and feeling guilty about my productivity... So in essence you:
1) Are always "working"
2) Simultaneously never REALLY working
3) Miserable :)
@@Joel-ew1zm yeah I’m literally the same. Studying computer science at uni, got all these assignments I should be doing but instead I’m sat here watching fucking UA-cam and feeling guilty lol. Sometimes I have a burst of productivity but it doesn’t last any longer than about 2 days
You literallly just explained how horrible this idea is before even pitching it. Now every day off is a collapse day that also has the next work day looming over it. It's the worst of both worlds
Can confirm. I tried this once at a job where I was able to choose my schedule. It was great.. For about 2 months. Then I just started to feel like I was always at work and never had any time to truly relax
I don't think it will necessarily play out like that. The reason why the next work day is looming over you is because you have to go through 5 work days until your next break. With this schedule, after every break, you only have 2 or 3 days until your next break, so it wouldn't really loom over you as much.
It’s because Grey loves his job and doesn’t commute or need to get exhausted doing it. So he doesn’t see the flaws
Yeah, it's literally just two Sundays. While we still can appreciate Sundays as you don't have to do anything, you have to deal with not being able to sleep late at night due to not being able to sleep in during the morning and let's be real here, Sunday is rather mid just because it's a weekend that doesn't FEEL like it. You don't have responsibilities, but you don't have carefreeness, and without another weekend before Sunday, it's just zero carefreeness except on the buzzling Friday later on in the day.
And then there's school, where no days are true breaks
On Friday, tow of your teachers decide to tell you "remember, essay due Monday" effectively removing the whole weekend
If you don't have time to get days off you're not organizing yourself properly. Maybe you're wasting too much time on the phone, maybe you don't focus that much.
I take weekends off and study only in weekdays and I'm doing just fine
@@CamaradaArdi ah yes because phones are always the issue
@@Blueee51 Well phones, the computer, whatever that is meant to keep you hooked in by design, be it UA-cam, social media or videogames.
It's so easy to waste time there, speaking from experience
@@CamaradaArdi that would be leisure. In other words a break, something your supposed to do on your day off. The point was that when schools give homework over the weekend they are essentially nullifying the days off.
Hear me out here: Wednesday, Saturday, AND Sunday off.
Yep, just work 10 hour days on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday if you have to put in the hours to make 40, otherwise just do the work until it is done on those specific days.
fprintf the 32 hour work week is way overdue at this point, let’s just make Friday part of the weekend
@@aketchupman5103 The only issue is that companies don't want to do this while paying workers a living wage, even if it does make workers more productive. In other words, we need some sort of action that forces companies to do it.
YEES
AMAZING
Get this man into the week board that decides break day stuff..
@@kenofjustice212 6 hour workdays are the way to go, basically every organization that tries it gets a permanent increase in production AND innovation.
Okay, but hear me out: 4-day work week WITH “Weekend Wednesday.” I know, crazy.
Yup. Do that.
I don't think that's crazy. We had a 6 day work week for literally centuries and having 5 seemed crazy then, but that's not what the data on productivity says
I’m doing that and it’s amazing.
@@metanumia The Unions are actually to blame for the stupid work week. Time to fix that.
Anodyne Melody uh, no. Unions came up with 8 hours. Because it used to be 10+, often 12+. 8 hours for work, 8 hours for play, 8 hours for rest.
I think it should what you propose, but making Thursday also off, so that there is a true weekend. Two days work…one day off…two days work…weekend…etc.
Broke: two-day weekend
Woke: weekend Wednesday
Bespoke: four-day work week
ASCENDED: not working at all
Westoke: double two day work week with weekend days AND wednesday off
Ascended: n̶o̶t̶-w̶o̶r̶k̶i̶n̶g̶-a̶t̶-a̶l̶l̶ Pandemic time
Four day work week used to be a thing in the 70s, but they stagflate.
Here's a better solution for employers: Four day work week, hire a second shift to work on the other 3 days. Every position has 2 employees. Both receive the same benefits, but the 3 day guy gets paid 75% of the 4 day guy.
Tie it with the demands of wage increase, then shove normally 2 weeks of work (normally done Monday-Friday, then another Monday-Friday, 10 days sub par energy) into one.
It's a win-win to literally EVERYONE. Business & services literally operated all week without overworking their employees, employees got, well, all. I can also tied it to other policies that, in US context, would encourage better welfare state.
No, even in this current stage of tech, human labor is still needed a lot. Lump of labor fallacy makes sure that it won't be 45% unemployment, more like 20%.
I would do anything for a four day workweek, even working longer on certain days
hear me out: keep saturday as a day off, add wednesday, and go straight to a 4 day work week (divided into 2)
This is brilliant
That's what i do - and sure, i earn less but damn is it worth it
This used to be my schedule Sat, Sun, Wed off. it was awesome, the only thing is needing to work 11 hour days to get 40 hours (10hr worked 1hr lunch)
Zwangsworkaholic Definitely gotta put a value on your sanity / happiness! That’s awesome
You gonna have to work more hours per day to keep this up tho. Not that I'm against it, of course.
I also thought this was suggesting a 4 day work week, which has shown increased productivity in workers who switched from the regular 5 work week.
The winning combo is regular weekend + wednesdays off.
In poorly designed studies. Of course the workers on the 4 day work week kept up pace with those on the 5 day. They want it to be permanent.
The only way to get real data on workplace phenomenon is to make a permanent change, then watch, then roll back
@@flakgun153 It's actually because people are exhausted at work and they just waste their time normally. At basically every job I've ever had 3:30 is about the last point in a day where much useful work gets done. 11:30-12 is also basically a wash. On a Friday nothing gets done all day *except* for 3:30-5.
A shorter work week, and shorter days for that matter, means people can work faster and work better and this has been shown time and time again over the last century and a half of fighting tooth and nail for every second of free time for working people.
@@flakgun153 Clearly you miss the OP's point, and what would the problem be if the employees "want it to be permanent"? Employee satisfaction is not a negative influence effect to control for, but a favorable outcome. Or do you not realize happier employees are more productive? If its an hourly position, trading time for money at 40 hours per week, why is a 10 hr x 4 shifts vs 8 hr x 5 shifts a problem? I've managed several 24x7 service oriented operations where this was very effective, as I would have transition time with staffing overlap time rather than holding people over for administrative work or training. The 8x5 format is an artifact of the manual assembly line business structure staffing for x number of assembly stations, looking to minimize labor costs... Or perhaps your a proponent of "pay for 40 hrs, but you must be here 45+ hrs" structure?
I would definitely do less work if i had less time at work lmao
There is a high level of satisfaction of being able to make it to Friday and there being two entire days off ahead of you.
Relaxing. Chill. You can just sit back and forget about whatever (unless it’s a multi-week school project).
yea unless ur in college 💀
when its weekend i get dissapointed and sad because of the next days
I like the idea of 3 days off instead of finding a way to overnormalize 5 day work weeks
👌
Yes please
That's what my university does, I get Monday morning, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday all free. The rest is lessons from 9am until 5 or 6pm. Just 3.5 days of lessons a week. I love it.
5 day work weeks aren’t that bad.... 6’s are draining but 7’s somehow better
Agreed!
I've tried both Wednesday off (together with Saturday and Sunday, not instead of one of them) and Monday off (basically a longer weekend), half a year each. I prefer the longer weekend to be honest. The free Wednesday often felt like wasting a day. I was never really able to take my mind off of work, constantly thinking about things I wanted to do the next day. It never felt as a real day off.
The free Monday on the other hand was very relaxing. It allowed me to actually feel refreshed after my weekends. It also allowed my to go on small vacations whenever I wanted, without it feeling like I was there for 15 minutes and already needed to go back home again. That made my vacations a lot more relaxed, since I no longer felt the need to constantly rush to see everything.
that's a good point and simply having a shorter work week also means less fatigue on friday/saturday meaning a more refreshing sunday as well.
I had free Mondays for one year during college, and my take on it is that it took the weight off the dreaded "start of the week" that Mondays are known for, so I felt way better emotionally speaking than when I had other days of the week free
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I'd actually advocate to push this further to the 9/80 schedule which I very much like. Every other weekend is 3 days and feels like a bonus treat and honestly a 9 hour day doesn't feel much different than an 8 hour day to me. Even more important, you can actually do significant multi-day projects and trips on those 3-day weekends making them feel more akin to a vacation than just a break.
@@diamondflaw - Seriously, everyone, including Grey, who is advocating for a new work week schedule that does not include reducing the 40 hour work week is nuts. 8 hour (or less) days. 4 days a week. If that's not what you're talking, then quit talking.
My school actually did something like this last year. We had remote wednesdays where we would do some fun activities on zoom with the teachers and the work they gave us was very minimal. That was honestly the best part of last year
My school did something the same, they started it out as is being off and then we just do schoolwork at our own pace, and then they brought it to just half days when people could actually be in school
My school made every wednesday an early dismissal during virtual school
In my school we had a day off on Wednesdays for two times a month which was in online school so we get to catch up on some missing work and it felt like a weekend :D
My school does not we have schools till 3:30 due to covid and boy does it feel sleepy
It was similar since we had all days except Wednesday in person and Wednesday was on Zoom so it was a lot easier to conserve energy
My school actually has half day Wednesdays and it’s amazing
Oh my god me too!
Honestly, having worked like this in retail world, this definitely falls into the ‘it’s alright for Grey, terrible for everyone else’ category. I can see if you are working self-employed, in a creative role, to your own schedules, and with no deadlines, bosses, or specified hours, this might be okay. But for most jobs, this just ends up feeling like you never get a break - your one day off is spend dreading (or at least preparing for) a return to work, and no space to decompress completely. It is stressful as all hell 🥵
@@MuttaqiIsmail To each their own.
Grey is a very very comfortable capitalist.
Even in an office setting - i cant really take my mind of Things in one day...
If you guys paid attention to the vid he was strongly recommending it to the self employed and students. He just said that companies should try it out if everyone is on board, and he even said it doesn’t always work and thats fine.
The real mistake Grey is making is that Wednesday is a *different* day off, not an *additional* day off. 4 day, 32 (or less) hour work week or GTFO.
I have an idea: 7 day weekend. No work.
Perfection.
Also: starvation.
Also: monke
@@JBGARINGAN Couldn't have said it better myself.
Poverty
Aha now this guys on to something
The only thing is though, if you’re planning something like an overnight trip that takes 2 days, you can’t do it anymore because the weekends are split,
He did quite specifically suggest that this was not "one size fits all". How often do you do this? Do you have any holiday time accrued?
In countries like Israel there's no 2 day weekends anyway, so making a weekend Wednesday sounds good to me
@@nadavln3797 same situation in India too
thats right man the biggest problem with this is that the one day "weekend" is too short and you dont have time to rest and do other things in the same time .
Vacation days would still exist.
As someone who worked this literal schedual, it sucks a lot. The day off(wednesday) doesn't feel like a day off cause you're resting from the last 2 days and on Sunday, you're resting from the last three days. This schedual sucked the soul out of me, only had time to sleep and clean a little bit and sleep again, I was lucky if I made it to a store. If you want to hang out with friends you can't stay out to late cause, oop, you gotta in 12 hours.
Honestly I work the avg 5 day, 8 hours a day schedual but 4 days working and three days off is the way to go, perfect schedual tbh
you're only resting from 2 days though, not 5. less recovery time is needed
Yes, *only if my DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT WOULD LISTEN TO MY LETTERS*
I once sent my superintendent a letter that he should be replaced. Guess what? He actually responded.
@@Pelarnis He said, "Do you know what I'm going through? I have a child to take care in the middle of a divorce, I've got a hundred other letters I need to respond to. The stress of being in charge of so much is nothing you could know. I'm sorry to say that I won't step down."
U Ok?
Yikes, not too receptive
@@alemon2367 Who are you asking?
My high school made our Wednesdays completely asynchronous and kept weekends, and I can't even begin to explain how helpful it was! The teachers could establish short office hours and students could work if they wanted, but they were often encouraged to go outside and take a break, which made Thursday and Friday feel just as fresh as a new week! I just hope more places adopt this, I think a lot of it this year is just an exception for COVID protocols
YES! My school did a similar thing with Wednesdays while we were working from home. Wednesdays were for non-academic things like assembly, class meeting, etc. so 9-11 you sat through a few zoom meetings, and the rest of the day was off. Amazing how much better it made Thursday and Friday feel.
my school did the same thing and I absolutely loved it
OURS TOO!!
What do you mean completely asynchronous ?
@@AkshayAradhya We had to check in with homeroom on zoom but otherwise it was all just assignments. Even then teachers were disincentivized from making things due on Wednesdays, so it was practically a day off
I'd rather have weekend + wednesday.
In a time where people increasingly feel that they don't have a good work-life balance, then why not split the working week 4:3 instead of 5:2?
You're free to do this. Cut your expenses, take the pay cut and find a job that will allow you to work 4 days a week.
@@SeanKH19 Yeah, no. Not taking a pay cut.
I think I'd quite like to try longer 4 days, and then get the 5th day off.
YES exactly who put down in law that you had to work 5 days with only 2 off? Surely 4/3 would be better. It's 2020 damnit we have computers and robots now.
@@danielm.1441 Also a good plan. The point is, if this is something you want, it's in your hands to pursue.
@@SeanKH19 I did, and I'm never going back.
I'd rather have weekends on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Trust me, that schedule is way better.
I feel like he was so close to realizing we need 7 day weekends
Really man then what is a weeekend if there are no work days? Yeah it sucks but without at least a few days of work a weekend is nothing I mean we could have Weds off and Fri off at the most.
@@monkeydluffy8119 r/woooosh
It's now WeekAlls
Daniel huff I’m pretty sure he’s being sarcastic
7 days weekend would be an absolute horror. Sure we wouldn't work, but then, no one would be obtaining any money, so you will practically live pretty miserably. No lights, no water, heck, you'll need to rob food if you wanna even remotely survive
I feel like all this would do is give me that "upcoming Monday gloom" feeling on both of my weekend days.
i think we really just need wed of as an extra day. 5 days with 40 hours is way to much and actually just hurts productivity.
Yeah, I have a feeling Grey likes what he does for work, which is generally not true for a lot of us
@@xavier84623 I do 9 hour days and get every other friday off and it's been pretty nice. That gets me up to 80 every 2 weeks. I think 9 hour 4 day weeks, whether it be 3 day weekends or wednesdays off, and just pulling the work week down to 36 hours would be a totally fair trade.
exactly
I have to say I've been working this schedule for a little over 3 months now and I don't really get that. In fact it's funny my Tuesdays have begin feeling like Fridays where I drag the most and Saturdays I feel like I could even work another day. I would recommend giving it a shot. Another bonus is every single holiday that falls on any day but Friday doubles your weekend. National holiday on a Tuesday or Thursday are no longer a waste but a fun mini vacation.
Bro 3 day weekend is the way to go man. Productivity levels will be through the roof 100000%
yeah and it also means that the week isn’t disrupted so if you’re doing really well you won’t just lose momentum halfway through the week
Yep. It's been proven countless times that 4 work/3 off provides better and more consistent work.
are you willing to be paid 4/5ths as much for working 4/5ths as many days?
@@maxbooth179 i mean the same pay could be given with 4 10s rather than 5 8s
Fr i like your theory better then the youtube man
I actually have this schedule already and I can confirm that it does work this way. I teach a one hour ballet class on Wednesday in the middle of the work day so I just don't work that day. I work Mon, Tues, Wed (just for the one volunteer class) then Thurs, Fri, Sat and having something on Wed makes me feel like that day was still valuable. I love working because of this.
A major benefit of having two consecutive weekends is that you can do something such as going out on a trip and not have to worry about being back on the same day, I feel like he really should have touched on that.
This right here. I have this problem currently.
Yeah, this approach is from the employers perspective. How to make workers the most productive
It's like taking a nap during the day. That way you won't feel as tired for the other half of the day.
Yeah.
@@quintinebrown3884 hm!
This totally ignores the benefits of having a 2-day-long weekend. If sometimes you want to do something more interesting in the weekend, it is often useful to have one day to do it and one day to rest, especially when you have a family, and a normal picnic in the countryside feels as tiring as a 1000m hike.
Don't you mean 3 day long weekend
hmmm
@@Darkfoot21 No, that's why he put the hyphens where he did, to specify that he was talking about a weekend that is two days long, as opposed to a long weekend.
Not to mention when you finish work on Friday you got the rest of the night since you dont need to wake up early on Saturday
@@mackenzieusher8025 No, this ignores the benefits of a 3 day long weekend
I prefer “...Wednesday, in addition to...” not “Wednesday, instead of...”. ☹️
Then take the pay cut and do it.
Seriously.
@@SeanKH19 or work 10hrs a day
@@SeanKH19 i dont think many companies would agree to that though.
Totally agree! When I used to work in call centers, during the shift bids I always tried to get the 4 10s with Wed/Sat/Sun off. You never work more than two days in a row. For my ADHD brain that is easily overwhelmed, it was amazing! I couldn't do Wed and only Sat. I feel like I can't get anything done with only one day at a time off. I say that from decades of experience working in restaurants and retail.
No joke. This gets recommended to me *every Wednesday* for the past 2 years.
A lot of schools in my area are actually taking Wednesday off, but we still have a two day weekend on Saturday and Sunday.
that's even better!
Where is your area? And is that only a covid thing?
In France, they have half days on both Wednesday and Saturday
Edit: Only some schools do this (mostly highschools)
That's honestly the best solution
That’s lucky.
I've had jobs like that before, and I just end up feeling like I've got no days off. It's more draining for me than the five day work week.
This is my experience too when days off are not together.
agreed. When you have only 1 day off and then go back to work you spend that one day doing stuff like grocery shopping, laundry, cleaning the house. Then you are just as tired going back to work. A 4 day work week is already more efficient for everyone possible, but no company wants to start it because it requires slightly more man power, but the same amount of money.
my current job is like this. i dont have a set schedule, and i dont know what i'll be working the next week until the friday before. typically i do get two days off scheduled at some point during the week, but they're never next to each other, and i usually get called in on one of them anyway. so i can have anywhere from 4 to 12 days without a break. before this though, i did have a set schedule with two days off next to each other (thursday friday) but i loved that job so much that during vacation weeks when we needed more staff i would sometimes work 2-3 weeks 8hrs a day without taking a single day off. honestly i think it comes down to how much you like your job and how much you're able to cope with its demands rather than how many and when you have days off. if you're doing something that you really, really hate, i dont think any amount of rescheduling breaks and all that would be able to help. i hate my current job and even if i got more days off or moved to a set schedule, it would still be exhausting.
And I work shifts. 3 weeks on (12h days) and then 3 weeks of. Year around. And on top of that I have 25 holidays to take out if I choose to. Which I do, of course.
@@Brother_frojd interesting, what kind of job do you have?
It's worth considering that weekend Wednesday is made more efficient when you keep your Saturdays and Sundays too.
If we got rid of Saturday, or Sunday, as weekend days it would be taken as religious discrimination.
@@joemccarthy5508 saturday is a religious day?
also, most places are open on sundays
@susu As well as for SDAs (Seventh-Day Adventists).
@@cocoa261
Yes, and Friday is a religious day too.
For Muslims
Tradionally, in my country, Wednesday afternoon was an afternoon off, originally for church. I'm 44 and I remember some shops being closed on Wednesday afternoons. That is mostly gone now, but it's still maintained in most primary schools. No school on Wednesday afternoons. That means that that afternoon can be spent on larger activities that would otherwise be more like a Saturday thing. Also, because there's no school on Wednesday afternoons, many parents don't work on Wednesdays, because child daycare would be very expensive that day, with so little school hours. As a result, a lot of businesses are somewhat on hold on Wednesdays. That turns the Wednesday into mini weekend, and it makes it easier to get through the week, especially for children. So it's not an entirely new idea.
this is genius
And if you're poor and work two jobs, you can actually try out both the normal schedule, AND weekend wednesdays at once!
Lmao
Or maybe you get neither of the weekends properly
if you're American you can get all days off because of a layoff while the company you work for doubles their stock price
@@maxhuneeus7211 well I don't think you realize the state most American business are in just to give you a idea
Even some OIL companies are going bankrupt when black gold isn't even cutting it that's when you know most business are screwed
The only ones that are growing like crazy are tech companies such as Google Netflix ETC
Apple Tek Support What he’s talking about is the stock buy-backs coporations are doing because of their new relief money.
When I have to do school from Monday to Friday, work all day Saturday, and have extra maths and English on Sunday but my teachers tell me ‘not to stress because it’s bad for my mental health’:
👁👄👁
Sorry you have a crazy amount of work dude
schools "hippity hopity 12 years of your life is my property
I with a controversial 6 days 8 hours a week can relate
@@rogansmogan202 another 3 years for before grade 1 and another couple of years if you go to college
Sorry man I go to school from Mon to Sat
The critical flaw with Weekend Wednesday: Saturday is for the Boys
Then work on Sunday instead if you don't go to church
wednesday is for the boys
No.
1. Become Jewish
2. Apply technique but with the week shifted (so weekend Tuesday)
3. ???
4. Profit w/ the boys
People who work 4 days to begin with, chuckles im in danger.
After a certain point money gets more and more meaningless, if you can afford it (dnt forget pention etc) i can promote it :)
We have more people in the workforce than ever, I feel like we should be able to swing a third day off. It’s lunacy how hard everyone is expected to work to make a regular living in todays time.
I can't say for your place but where I live we have a work force shortage. Too many jobs not enough workers. I have worked two jobs where in each one I have been given tasks outside of my area of expertise because they needed someone to do it.
@@Kingcoolbat This is almost always caused by shitty management, in my experience. Anytime there's a workers shortage at a company, its typically due to bad rumors about said position head.
@WhyPlayPiano Can't agree with that for me. I had direct link with my boss to get me some help. They never could find anyone willing and able to do the job for a long period. It's mostly like this because again there's jobs everywhere here as we don't have a large workforce to begin with. Talking more jobs then their are people here.
Omg that's why Pierre's store isn't open on Wednesday, now everything makes sense.
What about Marnie huh? Checkmate.
:0
I understood this reference
@@tlanayaru not exatly 24/7, more like 8/7, but still very nice
Stardew!!
Taking 365 days off every year seems to work for me.
So, so you work one day every four years, then?
That would be 21 work days in a lifetime
25*
I need a six month vacation twice a year
@🇨🇦 TheRealLoganYT 🇨🇦 no, it’s when either the comment doesnt show up and they put it again or just youtube just somehow duplicated the comment
How dare you? In less then 5 minutes you've made me fall in love with an idea unattainable for the near future, and now I must get everyone I have access to hooked on this same idea so that maybe, in months future, I'll be able to truly rest.
Tl;dr love the video, love the idea, but I'm currently employed as a grunt worker with no way of sharing this with a high enough executive to achieve it
If your boss likes it he can share it with his boss, and then it might get where it needs to go. Or in 7 day a week retail coverage type situation you can just request a split weekend on your standard schedule.
Organize!
UNIONIZE
when your tldr is almost as big as the statement
Months may be a little bit optimistic
I think the week should go like this:
Mon (work)
Tue (work)
Wed (break)
Thu (work)
Fri (work)
Sat (break)
Sun (break)
And maybe Monday should be weekend too idk
Ah yes of course, because 3 days of 14 hour shifts is absolutely amazing
in my country the schools must give the students on the afternoon a break
@@ironhelmet1750 get rid of the 40 hour workweek, it’s outdated and created when only one person was expected to have an income in the household
We aren't living in Zootopia, you can't do whatever you want
That's exactly my idea. Basically combining the compressed workweek program with the weekend Wednesdays into this perfection.
Doesnt work for schools, teachers would just see it as an excuse to assign more homework
True😢
Very true.
what kind of schools did you experience? xD
@@s0li my school even assigned classes for Sunday
@@s0li Every kind of school under the sun. News flash, it's even worse for college students.
One issue is camping. You can’t do anything overnight with your schedule without taking time off.
You can, right?
Just start camping after work on a work day. But I get it, it's not the same.
work holidays and school holidays
@@ShebbaYoung If I want to go to a pub or bar with my gf/friends and maybe get a little smashed, if I just have one day off, the next work day I'll be all fucked up and because I didn't properly rest to cure my hangover, maybe even the second day after it I'll still be feeling bad and messing up my work productivity. Whereas if I had a 4 day work week with 3 days of rest, everything would be way cooler, hahaha.
@praise the omnissiah! there are dozens of us! Dozens!
Not just camping. Having 2 days off in a row has a lot of benefits in other areas. Also, the part of the video where he talks about having Wednesday off, making places much less crowded is very true, but then you're stuck having to get to bed Friday night (when all your friends and family are having fun), and having to work Saturday when most events, family, friends, and many other things are going on and doing stuff. Although different from "weekend wednesday", I worked a job where my schedule was Friday-Sunday (yup, only three days a week) 4am-4pm. It was the worst. I'd get to bed thursday night around 8-9pm, get home from work friday around 4:30, then go to bed a few hours later, and repeat that the next two days. Monday-Thursday, i was sitting around bored all day because nobody else could do anything, because they were working!!!
I’m more in to the idea of 4 days of work and 3 days of relaxation.
Kinda
Except this is with 5 days of work a week like what happens normally
You can do it for over half of the year using paid leave, some people take off lots of Fridays. That means giving up on taking any annual holidays abroad though.
@Lucas lazarim Yea
Me too
Hi Grey! I saw this video randomly on Reddit earlier this year and started taking Weekend Wednesdays and it has changed my life, giving me so much more balance. I found your videos on UA-cam yesterday and just realized that were the one who changed my life. Thank you for the marvelous idea. Luckily for me though...I still have Saturday and Sunday off, too. 😎
Jokes on you, I’ve lost my job due to the virus, so everyday is Sunday
Have you considered asking the Lost and Found?
Big apologies, hope you find luck down the road
This is why I became a truck driver, got tired of being laid off every few months. It's been 28 years of steady, very well paid, pleasant work.
This is why I became a truck driver, got tired of being laid off every few months. It's been 28 years of steady, very well paid, pleasant work.
I mean, you can claim unemployment in most countries and make more money than the extremely tough essential jobs.
This feels like having two Sundays in a week :(
I agree, just I see that as a good thing.
Tou are undervaluing the break up of the work. You.are only wotking 2 days for a break. Rather than 5.
JRMCNEA Gray’s method is 2 on 1 off 3 on 1 off, terrible in my opinion. But 2 on 1 off 2 on 1 off is fantastic the workweek should be reduced to 32 hours anyway
Sunday feels so bad because you know you’re going to work for the next five consecutive days. Sunday won’t feel as bad if you know that your Monday is followed by a Friday.
Or 2 Saturdays?
Take Wednesday off and keep Saturday-Sunday weekend.
No...thats less work days...
this makes more sense
@@lachlanwashere1279 And that is bad because?
5 days is already too much no matter where the breaks are. there's no need for it.
@@lachlanwashere1279 But more productive ones.
You were SO close, soso close just had to keep Saturday off. Make it a 4-3 schedule instead, and we can even expand on the off-cycle by making one “group” (i guess depending on your employer) take off on wednesday, saturday, and sunday, with the other taking off tuesday, wednesday, and saturday. That way there are still days everyone is working, days half of us are working, and days where none of us are working. That way making plans with people would work out regardless of their schedule (because everyone takes off wednesday and saturday) while doing things while half of us work is still a possibility (like the DMV or theme park examples). I feel like this would be absolutely ideal for jobs that require rigid scheduling/school. This might be perfect
This seemed like a good idea at first then I realized all the times I enjoy doing something late on a Saturday knowing I had Sunday to recover.
You wouldnt lose that tho
You'd only move your "Friday night freedom" to Tuesday night
@@Andynory Except you start that day off exhausted from work. All this system does is make you have twice as many crash days and no more rest days.
GALL0WSHUM0R That’s why taking Wednesday off while keeping the 2-day weekend is my preferred solution! My employer agreed to an “alternate Wednesdays off” schedule, and I took a 10% pay cut. I swear I did 95% work for 90% pay, but it was still a win for me: those off-cycle days off are priceless! My stress level went way down.
This was my first step toward early retirement. Highly recommended. 🙌
@@Andynory but you have to take into account that 4 work days may mean longer work hours on those days. After 10+ hours of work I personally would be too tired to go out.
What you're realizing is that this schedule may make more sense for introverts than extroverts.
This litterally just makes it feel like your working your whole week
if you feel like that, you can try wednesday-saturday as half days and if you like it you can pass to this schedule.
@@berkrullah yeah that's how it is at the job I work at rn, it's 3 days of 12 hour shifts and one 6 hour shift. It's great give me so much time to relax and get ready for the next week
Literally. The point of a weekend for me is that Saturday you can go to sleep late and wake up late without worrying about tomorrow, and Sunday you can sleep late and do some other stuff. Having Wednesday off just means “I still have to wake up at the same time because I’ll ruin my schedule, and I can’t do anything fun out late because I have work tomorrow…”
And there are downsides to beeing off-cycle with most everybody else if you'd like to participate in their activities
he said it doesn’t work for everyone so
Wednesdays always feel great because tomorrow is Thursday which means the next day is Friday, and after Friday you can have a break. Wednesday is truly the neutral day of the week
Dang that was longer than I thought it'd be to explain .__.
YAY TOMORROW IS WEDNESDAY
Thursday prob the worst time when in school. The feeling that tomorrow is still Friday and not Saturday
hence the term "hump day"
@@AppleRick but monday is worse for me, just the feeling that I have 5 more days of school
My favourite schedule is "whole week weekend" that consists in 7 days off every week
starvation
But the problem here is that without a 2 day weekend you never get a substantial amount of time if you actually want to do anything
yeah but all grey does is work and sit at home so for HIM this idea makes sense. he takes pride in being a homebody which is great but its not healthy or sustainable for most people to live like Grey
@@technoserf_digital dude you've gone up and down the vid saying the same thing. You ok.
@@technoserf_digital Not healthy ?
If you need to go far away during 2 days to be healthy, there is a problem in your organisation
@@x999uuu1 I'm pretty sure it's his partner, trying to get him out of the house.
Having two days off in a row does have the advantage of potentially being able to do things that take more than one day without asking for an extra day off. Go visit mom and dad, stay the night, come back the next day. Or tackle a weekend project that you'd rather not have interrupted. Is that important enough to scrap weekend Wednesday? Eh, not for me, but I could see it
Yea this seems like you never have time off. This guys an idiot
@@jacklevenstein9305 I mean...some people don't really have much time off, you know. Also I wasn't calling him an idiot (why would you insult someone, anyways?); I was mostly agreeing with him but exploring another aspect of the discussion
Yeah but you can always go see mom and dad on the night before, stay for the night and go back on the afternoon/night on the day after. You still have 1 day off, you've just maximized your time spent, instead of waking up at noon on Saturday, getting ready for the trip the whole noon and finally going on the afternoon, then sleeping there and then going home on the next morning
@@yonicorn1641 how the ********** ****** ****** *** * ******** ******* do you have the energy to visit your parents after a full work day
@@jacklevenstein9305 Agreed. I've worked jobs where I didn't get my two days off together, and it certainly wasn't rejuvenating. In fact, it was far more draining because it felt like my work weeks rolled into work MONTHS. I wasn't properly rested until I got two days off in a row. Now, I work a job with 12-hour shifts that's 3 days on, 3 days off, and this schedule (aside from the fact that it's rotating shift work) has been the most relaxing I've had for time off.
Then "IT'S WENDSDAAAAAY MY DUDES!" would actually be something to enjoy hearing.
It *is* wednesday, my dudes! :p
*_enthusiastic screeching_*
@@TheMightyZwom it is and my i got to days of Highschool coming
Yikes i think i need a free Thursday instead now haha
Wednesday is my most favorite day in weeks (im 10 and im in middle school in 5th grade) i go on informatics room (computer lab) EVERY WEDNESDAY!
There’s a huge, HUGE advantage to having two days off in a row though. It’s a great feeling when you don’t have to work the next day but you also spent the current day not working. And it helps if you want to do things like *travel places* , which, if we’re honest, we still do and still enjoy.
this, when you have one day off, all you want to do is relax, but when you know there is another day of the next day, you want to do something, like go somewhere with our friends or clean up your room.
And that's much more important for mental health than having 2x1 day off, we are not machines after all that only live for work.
(that's my experience, I work 6 days a week with one day off, so a free weekend feels like a full vacation.
The pure relaxation of knowing that today is free. Not only lunch and afternoom but all of today including the evening and sleeping in the day after is free.
With one day, you always have work looming over you
Just use vacation days for that. Its not like you do it each weekend anyway.
@@Ms10000123 You know, a lot of employers are skimpy as hell about those. And besides, it feels better to save those up for much larger trips.
@@thefareplayer2254 Must be the difference in countries then. Most listings I see have about 25 a year or some kind of % of hours worked that works out to the rough equivalent. So you can do a two-and-a-half week holiday and 5 weekend-trips for example each year. And that is still within paid days.
School System : 5 days on, 2 days off
Also School System : There is your 3 pages of homework, have a nice Weekend!
*h a v e a n i c e w e e k e n d*
Thats why i skipped homework on weekends :D
@@456Tal me too, I do what I can at Friday and nothing on Sundays and Saturdays
3 pages only lol... that would never happen, only in the farthest of dreams
3 pages is really little
And there I was thinking he just meant having three days off instead of two 🤦♂️
That’s what he should’ve been arguing for, but instead he’s gone with a real unicorn - something neither employers *nor* employees will really want!
Three days off would be a much tougher sell to employers, I think.
Same here - and based on how much productivity has gone up we are really far overdue a shortening of the workweek. Wednesday off is probably a better alternative to the 6-hour workday.
@@TheAmericanPrometheus I have a 4 day week. 2 days on, 1 off, 2 on, 2 off. I love a day off in the week to get a rest and bothersome chores done like have the electrician in to fix the boiler. The 2 days off let me go away, stay out late or just have a social life!
@@TheAmericanPrometheus employers and business owners have been reaping the rewards of more efficient production for well over a century. It's time they shared it with the labour force.
Always been in support of having either or both four day work weeks and/or six hour work days. Productivity, ethic, morale, and overall happiness practically skyrocket under these conditions. I understand having enough people to work the times the business is open can be difficult. But, here's a thought... have you tried not having every meeting at 7am? Perhaps important business meetings should be around noon instead, when people are more awake and attentive? Perhaps being open 24hr isn't the best idea for your employees? Those six people who shop past 10pm will learn to shop at more reasonable hours. No need to worry about lost income
0:28 - The second day off is tainted by the looming work day.
Grey: let's taint all your days off.
I disagree with the idea this poses that you're losing work energy at a consistent rate every day you're at work too, it doesn't matter to me if I've been to work one day in a row, or two days in a row, or five. after the first one I'm already tired but I'd much rather maintain that rhytm and get to the weekend so I can take off a full day of complete recovery mode and then have an entire day off to do whatever I want. Letting people pick and choose which one they would prefer also wouldn't really work irl, I think, considering how incompetent most middle managers can be.
Spoken like someone who watched half of a three minute video.
@TheWhiteStone it's actually not like that. When you have two days off in a row, the _first_ day is hampered by recovering from your workweek and the _second_ day is tainted by the knowledge that you're going back tomorrow.
When your days off are split throughout the week, they become equal. Yes you are _always_ going back to work "tomorrow" and that makes it just part of the routine.
Plus, don't discount the effect it has on the portion of the adjacent workday you did get off. For example, if you work mornings, the day before off is THE time to start recharging, since tomorrow you get to sleep in and wake up fully rested instead of having to set the alarm clock to get up.
@@Stratelier So according to your explanation, both of your days off are hampered by recovery AND tainted by the knowledge that you have work tomorrow. That seems awful.
Never mind if you actually have things to do and errands to run on your days off. That's why consecutive weekend days work well...if I happen to have something to I need to do in my time off, it's okay because I still have another day to rest before I've got to slog it back to work. Ask anyone who has ever worked a crappy job with a variable schedule that your bosses dictate. This bright idea only seems good to people that haven't had to cram everything into the one day off they've got in between workdays.
heh, "taint"