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What would a 3 hour work day be like? (midwest.social)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by MNByChoice@midwest.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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It often feels like there are only 3 productive hours in typical American white collar work day.

What if we just cut out the rest?

Edit: Some great responses. So responses must have also been said about the 5 day and 40 hour work weeks.

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[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It sounds great! The real trick would be finding any company willing to pay the same 40 hours of wages every week for 15 hours of work. There's not much point to a 3 hour work day if you have work 3 different jobs

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

There’s not much point to a 3 hour work day if you have work 3 different jobs

Not that I'm advocating for it, but... Working 3 jobs @ 15 hours a week each would mean you'd be a lot more resilient against layoffs and would be able to quit any of those jobs at the drop of a hat if things got shitty (knowing you'd only be losing 1/3 of your income, rather than 100% of it). It would represent a solid shift of power into the hands of the workers.

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

True, but the whole point of having a shorter work week would be to have more free time wouldn't three jobs kind of defeat the whole purpose? That would just mean I wake up dreading three jobs instead of one...

[–] timmytbt@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And all the wasted time getting from one job to the next. Even if the travel is all virtual you still have to get setup/organised, put one thing down and pick another up.

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

And what happens if job 2 doesn't start for like 2 hours after job 1 and job 3 doesn't start until 3 hours after job 2? That's now a 14 hour day where your either working or getting ready to work with just enough "down time" to not really get too much accomplished... AND you're going to get taxed on each paycheck. That sounds awful

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

i've been down that road before. three part time jobs means no benefits and no employer-sponsored health coverage. it's also extremely difficult to schedule multiple part time jobs so they don't conflict with each other while still giving you something resembling 'weekend' off.