Inside a U.S. company pioneering the four-day work week model
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- Опубліковано 12 січ 2024
- American workers overwhelmingly say that they want a four-day work week, and in some companies, that's possible. CBS News' Brook Silva-Braga takes a look inside one of the places where it's happening.
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I salute the man who owns the RV place…need more like you who care about the ones you employ
My old job let us work 4 10hr work days and it was glorious. Once you get used to it it's hard to go back to 5-day work weeks
5 days is awful and unsustainable
Did you miss the part where they were working 4 8 hours day?
@@TheBLGL but that’s not what many companies do
I know more than a few people who work 3 12s, in varied industries too.
Lots of places has have these types of schedules, this is not new.
I loved 4 tens. the wife was unsure in taking 4-10 week, told her she would love.....i was correct
Why is it an old job?
For the last ten years I worked six days a week with five months of the year blacked out for no extra time off. I quit and found a 4 day a week job. Life is too important.
I worked a job back in the late 70's where the manager agreed to a worker suggestion to try a proposed 3 day work week - 12.5 hrs per day. Her only conditions were that everyone had to agree, the same amount of work had to be done, and that the schedule had to give certain coverage during certain hours of the day. Our small crew quickly agreed and we cooperated to design the schedule. We had to have 24 hour coverage, and we did, with each person working 3 straight days with 4 straight days off. We loved it, and so did the manager. By the end of the 3rd work day I was ready for time off, but with 4 straight days, recovery was easy. The system was a phenomenal success. I highly recommend it. All the work was done, and well, while everyone was happier with the situation at no extra cost to anyone.
I agree, i had a 3 day work week. Worked Fri-Sun 12 hr shifts and still got paid the 4 hours. Was really great...and then the company went bankrupt.😊
The one sacrifice we had to make with our three 12.5 hour days was eating a meal while working.@@Ss1mega
It takes there not being a 200 to 1 pay difference between the CEO and the people on the floor making the money. IMAGINE IMAGINE IMAGINENENNENENENENE also Imagine you people not buying into every oligopoly and monopoly ever. It's so cringeeeee
A 200 to 1 differential would represent movement toward relative equity at many big corporations today. The ratio of executive pay to worker pay in the hay day of American business in the 50's and 60's was far smaller. Executives in American corporations are horrifically overcompensated (salary and stock benefits) for their roles. The "star" system of CEOs has been a very expensive failure for corporations since the cost of administration has grown massively over the years without an equivalent growth in profits.@@wookiedontwherepantspants515
I had a job where you worked 4 days a week and every three weeks you got five days off and you still got your full hours because how the hours lined up. Two days were day shift and two days were night shift. I actually loved it. I was a little party animal and it really just worked great for me and my two best friends i worked with. You Could get overtime too
It's awesome to see an employer make decisions on quality of life instead of just on the basis of greed. To explore the whole picture & include employees' needs/wants in the decision-making is great. When a company/employer truly cares/treats their workforce well, the employee, in turn, will have more positive productivity.
So so true! ❤
Only works bc small company
@@rickyayyYeah it's like the owner said it worked cause there's only one shareholder the boss.
Yeah ok. We can put a man on the freaking moon but it’s impossible to make the choice to put people ahead of profits and offer a 4-day work week. Sure.
Would never happen In the biggest employee sector. Retail!!
I used to work in a plant. We worked 13 and 1 (6 nights, off a day, then 7 days). It was 12 hour shifts. Now I work as an electric motor mechanic and we work 4 days on and 4 days off (I work nights 5 pm - 3:30 am). I absolutely love it!
Last year, the company was able to do 300 more motors than their best year and these aren't small motors. 120 volt - 4,000 volt, 10 hp - 10,000 hp motors.
I never want to go back to 13 and 1 again.
It takes there not being a 200 to 1 pay difference between the CEO and the people on the floor making the money. IMAGINE IMAGINE IMAGINENENNENENENENE also Imagine you people not buying into every oligopoly and monopoly ever. It's so cringeeeee
Factory I currently work in is 7 days a week. 8 hour shifts. Miraculously, the management team added an 8th day.
@@wookiedontwherepantspants515 the CEO is a good person. We're guaranteed 40 hours a week. It's a small company that puts their employees first. You're not a number here. You're a person with a family and they value family.
So much time wasted in unproductive meetings every day.
I agree meetings are so dumb especially when you don’t talk about anything new or worthwhile
In 1999 I switched our job shop to 4 9 hour days and used Friday as overtime with no weekend work. The attraction of quality employees was great. The people who chose to work with us loved the schedule and was a big perk, still talk to many of those guys today.
😯 shocker! Lol
four 9s is good!
The more that I worked in corporate America, the more that I didn't understand why a five-day work week was the standard, the norm. Like it was stated in the video, removing meetings and other non-productive tasks can easily make a four-day work week feasible. It's almost sad that removing five days and/or 40 hours from a standard American work week is difficult. But this is a country that really hates change. There are still corporations that refuse to allow folks to work from home - they HAVE to work from the company's office, to complete all of their work on a laptop and on the phone!
This is most office jobs
My works switch last year doing 4 day work week and after a year we all talked about how it went, and we realize that we were more productive then ever and happier in our personal life.
Covid make made A lot of people rethink the work life balance and this is a movement that some workplace is really need to start catching onto because it’s a great way to keep talented employees, happy!
It takes there not being a 200 to 1 pay difference between the CEO and the people on the floor making the money. IMAGINE IMAGINE IMAGINENENNENENENENE also Imagine you people not buying into every oligopoly and monopoly ever. It's so cringeeeee
Remember that the 40 hour work week itself is somewhat new, established about 100 years ago.
Before then, people did 60 hour weeks, which would be outrageous today.
We should have made enough efficiencies in the last 100 years to move to 32 hours
Lol 😂
before industrialization ppl around the world worked less than 40 hours a week, typically.
@@newagain9964 No. It was closer to 80.
@@i_marcus_quintus wrong. U should read the writings of anthropologists.. and NOT business/economic historians and pundits.
People still work 60 hours a week…just depends on the job plus what do you think overtime is? Lol
I used to work for a company that had four day work week it was awesome. Had my appointments scheduled on Fridays and errands on Friday. But we worked 10 hrs a day which was worth it.
I was expecting a 10 hour Mon - Thurs work week. I did a lot of those, I like them. I did not expect it to be a European style work week. I 100% support this move.
I work at a paper mill and the schedule is 4 X 10. That has been the schedule since it opened in ‘84.
You can have that smelly place
I thought septic tanks smelled that another level
I've been trying at my work for 10 years now and HR still says no way
Nurses work 12 hr shifts, 3 days a week. With only 30 min lunch breaks. This has been happening for a long time now. My whole 18 yr career. This is not new. And our work is mentally, physically and emotionally grueling. Not to mention having to be exposed to a pandemic here and there. 😅
I know a couple of medical professionals that work 12hr 12hr 16hr shifts with 4days off a week and they LOVE it!
Yep. However, With us nurses, there’s no guarantee that you actually get a lunch break unless you work in California.
In New York the nurses get a midday break and a lunch break, many times I go to a lounge area and a few nurses are taking naps. It’s because I believe they went on strike a couple of years back for more pay which they got and better break times.
Nurses and teachers are the most overworked, underpaid, extremely valuable professionals in this country. It's disgusting how they're treated.
Teachers get half the year off and get multiple week holidays throughout the rest of the year.. Not to mention their own personal days... How can one complain about that... If it's pay then get a second job in the summer? Start an onlyfans?
I've been working this mon-thu schedule for many years now. I prefer it over doing 5 days of the week minimum. Here are the pros and cons: pros- 3 days off per week (without over time), 1 trip less traveling, an off day to make appointments/run errands and get more work done each day. Cons- longer work hours, less time at home each workday, may not get enough breaks and may do 10 hours overtime on an off day (pro if you need the pay).
I don't want to follow the traffic jam ups which consists of 9-5 workers. They drive impatiently and dangerously. I like companies that give employees options.
They aren't working longer hours. Still 8 hours a day.
@@thisrandomlife619He didn't say anything about that
@@francismarion6400 He did. Start listening at 1:20
@@francismarion6400watch the video again then delete or edit your comment
he said they are working 8 hours a day, 4 days a week with the same pay, which means they aren't being paid hourly. More than likely it's a production based job. Do less work, get paid less, etc. If it was hourly, they would only get paid for 32 hours, which is a helluva pay cut just to get an extra day off.
God bless the owners heart for putting this to the test!
A great boss who cares about his employees and understands they have lives and families too I wish every boss was like this guy
I negotiated a four day work week in both of my last jobs for the last six years. Wednesday specifically. it’s nice to have that day, but the truth is it’s just the day how you use it is what matters. I don’t have kids and don’t want them ever. I normally use it just to decompress, and/or set up specific appointments. My company also has an infinite PTO sick time policy.
It's not about the 4 days, it's getting your old 40 hr job done in 32 hrs.
In the oil and gas industry, it was pretty common to have every other Friday off. I loved it.
I gave up on the U.S. ever adopting a 4 day work week and took things into my own hands by taking a 10 year vacation when I was 35 and retiring at age 54. Life is too short to spend anymore of it than absolutely necessary earning money to live. Live modestly, reject consumerism and enjoy life doing the things that make you happy. In my case - sailing, backpacking, paddling, and bicycle touring all over the world.
must be making insane money. most of us cant live without an income
Trust fund baby
fax. delverage your life! and live
I retired at 55....3 pensions and 10 percent VA disability...when I retired I was in a Federal job as a GS-9 and making great money, but it was a shift job with the morning shift having a 5am show up time that i had to get up at 330am for....the last morning shift it was it for me..... every morning at 9am I was falling asleep where there are some jobs that people show up for work at 9am....I am not rich and if i had stayed in my old Federal job i would be making well over 110K a year with all my incomes, but i would be an unhealthy well paid zombie with no life.....I love getting up at 7am every morning now and having my coffee and every day being wide open so to speak....
I worked 3 years with a 4 day work week. New boss came and made it a mandatory 5 day week despite the company policy of working to meet the needs or the business. My clinic exceeded the sales plan, top 10 in the company in client satisfaction.
Fast forward I’m a small farmer now and work 6-7 days a week, shorter days, but I love what I do. The goal is to continue to grow so myself and future employees have a better work life balance.
How did you get into farming?
How did you get into farming?
How did you get into farming?
This can easily work if you use Monday and Friday as the day that is traded off and used as a weekend. I work 3 days in the office and 2 from home and I enjoy that alot too
no. 4 day work week. 36 hours max.
The company I work for is trying to do this and I’m all for it we’ve already got stuff shift around to where when shift doesn’t even have to work on a Saturday which is great
I work 4 -10s Mon-Friday as a heavy equipment mechanic . Love having Fridays off to run errands and get hammered
We work four day work weeks at my job. With a slight overlap between standard and weekend shifts, we have production almost nonstop and extra hands on 2 days. Not including night shift. Our shifts however are 10hrs. I would really enjoy a 32-hr work week!
It works, it really does. I’ve had the chance to experience it. The amount of gratitude and eagerness to perform those days that you are working is astounding.
4 day work week is the way to go. You are more efficient and you put more effort into the job knowing that you have three days coming for time off. This idea of 5 day work weeks is horrible on people and it does not account for any additional time traveled to work
The U.S. government has been doing this for decades. Though we have to work four ten hour days. Your day off during the week is based on seniority/time in service. I started with a Wednesday day off, then a guy retired and I got Friday. On a "free" 4 day weekend right now. This is just Civilian employees not active military though. WISH I could do four eights and still get paid for 40 hours.
My wife’s uncle was EPA, they’d work 9 days and get every other Friday off
I guess they did like 9 hour days
He admitted the extra hour or so was taken up by reading the paper on the toilet early in the day, and a longer lunch later. lol
Productivity is the same with reduced working hours because people aren't burnt out, tired, dragging their feet, making mistakes, getting injured, getting sick.... All of this costs time and money. 4 x 8 is more efficient because workers are rested, alert, less stressed and less distracted.
I work in aerospace manufacturing. We’ve been working this schedule for years. Some of us even have a 3 on 4 off schedule. It’s fantastic.
Unfortunately, not every business can do this. Depending on production needs.
I work nights 10 hours with 3 days off
I used to work four days a week when I was employed with the Detroit dump, but I started every morning at 4:30am and ended my work day at 7:30pm or when the last truck returned from the landfill.
I loved a four day work week. Only thing my work needed to fix was break times which they never did.
I thought this was four 10 hour shifts! 4x8?? So hourly pay would be less!
My previous position had 4x10 work weeks , this is not revolutionary but it was awesome - didn’t have to use time off/ PTO so much
That would be a decent life. 3 days is the perfect ammount to maintain your life and recover
As a trucker the only thing I don’t like about it is losing a day for delivery/pickups. Which basically means we get a chance to increase revenue for the week if we don’t get a long load for over the weekend.
I've worked 4-10s for the last 10+ years. Fridays for overtime if needed. They act like this has never happened😂😂😂😂
But they are getting paid for 40hrs and only working 32hr big difference
@simecekiii true that will be good for about 6 months then the employees will get comfortable and but in less effort.
Than how has it worked for them for over a year and are getting more done? For sure less effort is going in 🤦♂️
I work for a company who has us set into 4 crews. Each crew does 12 on and 12 off. We work half the year. We have every other weekend off and I can tell you my work schedule on any day of the week for hundreds of years.
Amazing!! Well done. Thx
it's about time morale was a serious consideration at the work place. happy workers make better products.
4 days is great when people actually WORK
Why you hiring people that don't work? I'd be fired instantly if I didn't work
I worked 4 day week for years, 4 - 12 hr. days , 3 day week ends 8 hrs overtime required when necessary (always necessary) more optional.
My company switched from 5 8's to 4 10's about 6 years ago and I love it.
We're more productive and with the change of pay scale, we're earning a lot more money.
Plus 3 day weekends 🎉
Have done 4,for many years. Love it. I always liked my three days during the week. Take the travel trailer to the lake. Not many people and cost less.
What an outstanding story and kudos to this owner with VISION.
Back in 1998 I worked 4 days a week, 10 hours a day. Loved it! One side-effect that occurred as a result was that I wasn’t using any vacation days. It wasn’t because I was trying to save them for something, rather, I just never felt a need to take any. I did end up taking a couple weeks in November of that year, but only because I went out-of-state to visit my parents.
Amazon surprisingly is one that has a 4 day work week. We work 4 10 hrs rather than the 8, but I still would much rather work that than come in 5 days a week. There’s even a shift that is 3 12s with 4 days off but it’s a 3rd shift.
My job doesn't have 4 day work week, but we do have a 9 day/2 week work week. But you still to work 80 hours in the 9 days.
Yes please
Where I used to work, we had a choice of 3 different type of work weeks.
1. 4 each 10 hour days per work week. You had every Fri. off.
2. 5 each 8 hour days per work week. You worked every week day.
3. Week 1 work 4 each 9 hour days and week 2 work 5 each 9 hour days. It was called a 9/80 rotation. You had every other Fri. off.
We grew up in school on a 4 day school week in rural Colorado. My father got the winter off from work, so for us it was great, friday skiing, trips to moab. Bonding as a family...for my friends, whose parents went to work, it was an opportunity to get in a lot of trouble....the parents eventually voted to vring back the 5 day week because of this.
Nothing new about the concept. As an engineering student in the early 1980's I toured a small part stamping plant that had a 4 day workweek schedule. Half the staff was off on Friday, the other half on Monday. The owner also only normally worked 4 days a week too (unless called in for a emergency situation).
That was 9 hour days (36 hours/wk) ; and they got paid the same as for other people working 40 hours a week.
All the employees were very happy...
For me I wouldnt even need to work less hours a week for the same pay (although that would obviously be great) I would even love to do 4 ,10 hour days instead of 5, 8 hour days. When the majority of your day is already taken up by work, another two hours is not a big deal. But when you have an entire extra day to be off work, its huge.
There are many companies that operate with a 4 Day Work Week. 35 yrs as a Teamster and I've ALWAYS worked a 4 Day week. (4 10hr days). And get a few 3 day weeks every year.
I did a 40 hour 4 day work week for awhile it was pretty awesome.
I’ve worked for plenty of companies that had a 4 day work week. Monday thru Thursday…Friday was expected though. And was frowned upon when you didn’t right on that Friday OT.
This only works for a caring boss like this man… great job 👏🏻
6:22 - "Instead of laying off 20% of your workers, you have them show up 20% less". Except people don't want a 20% pay cut. Pay already isn't keeping up with inflation and a lot of people work 2, even 3 jobs. The hope I think for folks might be instead of paying me 10-20% more is let me work less. If folks are still doing 5 days worth of work, the company doesn't lose and they dont have to pay more. Seems like it could be a win.
Not happening where I work. 12+hour shifts 6 days a week.
I work with the railroad in the northeast near the border our normal hours are 10 hours 4 days a week been like that for the last few years works great
3:16 WISE WORDS right here.
where i work, maintenance does 4-12 hr shifts 2 separate day crews and 2 separate night crews. everyone works sunday. my days off are tuesday wednesday thursday
Like they said the employees have to be able to produce 40 hrs of work in 32 hrs in order to have a 3 day weekend so no production is lost.
Thank you.
Work/life balance in America is horrible. The five day work week is certainly to blame.
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Best Job i ever had was 4 Tens . Monday thru Thursday work 10 hour days. Had Friday Saturday and Sunday to enjoy and optional overtime really great company!
I work a 9-80 schedule with every other Friday off. We still get to come in that Friday but get paid double time.
Amazon employees have 4 day work weeks 8-10 hrs for drivers
Yea Amazon warehouses have had a 4 day work week for years
We used to work 3 days at 12 hours, now we do 3 and 4 days. It’s awesome
Been working 4 10's for 2 and half years and the company makes plenty of product in that time and it should be used on a lot of office work places.
My hubby's place of business has been doing this for a few years now. They are a supplier for GM.
We work 4 on 4 off swing shift and i love my schedule
Excellent!!! ❤👍
I did a 4 day workweek some years ago. it was great. BUT, we still put in 40 hours. Asking a crew to do 40hours of work in 32 is not cool. My company ran 2 shifts a day 7 days a week. We worked 2 4 day work week shifts - We held safety meeting on Wed so everyone had to work Wed. Shift1 = Su-Mo-Tu-We Shift2 = We-Th-Fr-Sa we worked 10 hour days so we still put in a 40 hour work week. There was Shift1 days & Shift1 Afternoon. What the company got out of it was they had people working Sa & Su.
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4x 9-hrs a day (max) is good. but 4x 8-hrs is better.
My son works a 4 day week with one of the largest cos. in the US. He works Tuesday through Friday. They do get call outs for emergencies and there lots of emergencies due to the nature of their work but I know he loves his job and the co. he’s worked for for twenty years.
It would also be cool or more companies implemented "Any 80" shifts.
The key is 4 days x 8 hrs max.
I'm not doing 4 days x 10 hrs or some other combination that's just smooshing 40 hours into fewer days. That's just torture for me, and it's less productive.
Applause!!! This is what real bosses do.
The only fields that won’t get a 4 week is emergency services hospitals airports & retail
Most of those fields actually are 24 hour businesses so they have plenty of shift workers to cover the extra hours and work nights and weekends already so actually these businesses can adapt this practice first much more easily than traditional 9-5 white collar work.
It works because Friday is usually a bs day and then you get off early. All depends on the job though. I work in maritime so you work days, weeks, or months then get off the same amount or less but you’re off large chunks and work doesn’t go with you.
10 hour days and no overtime pay bullcrap
More quality time for workers will benefit in the future. It's a win-win situation.
my company has had a 4 day and even 3 day and 2 day work week for 20 years
My college was mon-thur every Friday off.
I’ve done this for years. 2 12 hour shifts and 2 8 hour shifts. Or we can do 3 12’s and a 4. Or we can do 4 12’s and get overtime. Works for us and the company at the same time. Plus we have all paid breaks so it’s even better. 40 hours a week period no matter how you cut it.
And we are an also in Ohio and a manufacturing facility. So. Yeah. Nothing new.
I work a 4 day week. Its awesome having 3 days off.
I work a 4/10 shift at my job. We have two work shifts 5 days 8 hrs if you work the early morning or the evening to night shift which is the 4/10 shift. I choose the 4/10 shift just because i start later and come home late at night sometimes after 1 or 2 am. Personally I prefer the 4/10 shift it allowed me to get personal stuff done in the daytime but now i have 3 days off from work. Fri-Sunday i love it.
We do four 9 hours and a half day on Friday. I cannot imagine doing a full day on Friday anymore.
Is Mike hiring? Seems like a great owner with his employee's best interest in mind along with pushing the business forward. Awesome piece!
They should try it in businesses where income don't rely on minimum production limit of the employees.
Great idea! But……I don’t see it ever working in the service sector…
Im a letter carrier and the post office is moving towards a 6 day work week. No lie!
For my “next” career, as I will be over 55, I’m thinking of consulting a 4 day week. It will save the company money, they will get pretty much the same output from me, and there is natural downtimes in the cycles anyway.
I work three 12 hour days and have 4 days in a row off every week. Hospital.
I’ve been on a 4 day work week for 10 years. This is not new.