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Written in our universes language: "Bernie Sanders released a plan that will absolutely never happen and caused literally every single person that isn't a worker to laugh until they couldn't breathe anymore."

Love the idea. But like free college and free healthcare I'm thinking it's just wishful thinking.

Guess how many hours rich people have to work?

0 hours

It's not going to go anywhere, but it's good that it's being introduced regardless.

At my job (standard 9–5 office) we're on a "hybrid" WFH schedule where we each get a single WFH day throughout the week. If this passed, it would be so easy to implement for us, we'd just "lose" our WFH day and get it transferred into a weekday off-day. The inside-joke among alot of people here is that nobody is working on their WFH day anyways (which I hate the joke, people are shooting themselves in the foot with it), but it would be an easy transition.

i don't even like looking at or thinking about this stuff, it's too depressing getting my hopes up

Yes, please.

I'm not opposed to a 4 day work week, but I am always curious as to what jobs the studies have looked at to conclude that people with 4 work days instead of 5 do the same amount or more work.

I'm a construction worker. Despite the jokes about standing around, we work hard. I do not think that a 4 day work week would produce better results than a 5 day in my field.

Just for reference I've been doing home rehabilitations for lower income families. There's not a ton of heavy lifting, there's just a lot to do.

Also, a lot of guys in my line of work also work side jobs on their days off.

I like this as a concept, and since it has a low likelihood of passing, let a lone being bought up for a vote, i feel comfortable casting this critique:

We need a long-term solution that addresses the power imbalance of employer-employee relations, and all this does is places a temporary and incremental improvement on something that will inevitably be undermined.

I have a similar critique on minimum wage laws - while undeniably better for working class people, they fail to address the broader inequity and end up needing to be updated every couple years (which never happens).

This is one of those moments where I really wish Bernie would put a finer point on it - this is an issue driven by capital. The federal government wouldn't need to spell out labor laws if they could strengthen the working-class's position against capital more broadly. I would almost rather him propose a bill that strengthens union laws and the NLRB, since those are currently under attack.

I honestly wonder why there aren't incremental versions of this. Like why not advertise a 38 hour work week where Fridays are 6 hours long? Or 35 where every day starts or ends an hour early?

Fisher-Price offers half day Fridays in the summer and that's a big part of their pitch for why to work there. They are the only company I've ever heard of with anything like it and it's not even year-round. But it makes a lot of sense.