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The four-day week challenge

Last activity 14 May 2006 by lydia

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Julien

An article I enjoyed reading: the four-day week challenge

What do you think about it? Is it an utopy, an interresting point of view, a nonsense?

manu

Since I am freelance, it's more 6 ou 7 days a week than 4 or 5... It can be interesting, but, when you work for your own customers, you can't really say : "Oh, you need it friday ? I'm sorry, but I only work from monday to tuesday..."
For me, working only 4 days a week is more like an utopy...

lydia

Nice idea but I don't think it would really work in the real world. I have never been self-employed my my boyfriend was for a long time before we moved to Germany. It was hard enough stopping customers calling at the weekend and at all hours of the evening let alone a whole 'work day'.

I think if you did start to do a four day week you would lose out to competition that does work normal office hours (and days).

Unfortunately we live in a 24/7 type of world and if you want to get ahead, especially as a self-employed person you have to embrace that.

Well that was kinda long :)

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