cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/37012762
Reduced Work Week and Compressed Work Week are a (relatively) new concept that some Annualised Hours Contract workplaces are doing
Reduced: You work 4 days of 7.5 hours, adding up to 30 hours weekly, you get paid the same as if you worked 5 days of 7.5 hours (37.5 hours)
Compressed: You work 4 days of 9.5 hours, adding up to 37.5 hours weekly, you get paid the same as if you worked 5 days of 7.5 hours (37.5 hours)
I worked a 4-10 in 2014, but also worked 20 hours on the weekend driving for uber. Combined I only made about 40k, so definitely not worth it.
Now I work a “normal” week, but from home with no weekend work, and make $150k. I also only do like 10 hours of actual work per week, so I prefer this situation…
But I’m voluntarily giving this job up next month and moving to a country where I’ll probably work 9 hours a day, 5 days a week, making 30k… because I don’t want to support America with my taxes any more, and because I want my family to be safe.
But yeah, if we’re talking same job but shorter week, I would choose the shorter week every time.
Can i have your 10-hour $150k job when you’re done with it?
Worth it to move. People are always surprised at the ‘low pay’ when you you move overseas but don’t ever take into account how much of your paycheck goes to everyone else but you first (in the US), and relative cost of living.
IMHO money/pay outside the US has more value, in the US it’s just a revolving door of debt.
Yeah, my European relatives earn less than us, but they are always traveling to other countries and going on local trips, while we are just getting by week to week
I did ‘compressed’ a lot MANY years ago, like, almost 25 … life was SO much better. Putting in an extra 2h a day feels like nothing - but getting a WHOLE EXTRA DAY OFF is like 50% more weekend. That was also pre-“you can order literally everything on the internet”, so there was a lot of running around and “weekend chores”/shopping etc. to be done in a standard week - and you were able to instead do those things on your ‘3rd day’ when stuff wasn’t so busy.
It was the happiest I’ve ever been in almost 30 years of working full time.
I worked in a hospital for years that did shifts as 8-8-8-16. The 16 was rough but you got used to it and a permanent 3 day weekend was amaaaaaazing to the point that my life since has been very unsatisfactory. A 2 day weekend is utter bullshit especially as you get older. It’s barely enough time to recover
I have worked a four ten schedule for at least a decade. I fucking love it. I get a three day weekend every weekend. I work in IT so I was really doing 8-9 hour days anyway so just sticking around another 15-2 hours didn’t really change anything.
I’ve worked three 12 hours days and one six hour day a week for years.
Baked in OT, three and a half days off. I loved it
In an old job I worked a compressed 5 over 4 and loved it - managed to talk my way into getting Wednesday as the day off and it was so nice to never have to work for more than 2 days in a row with a little mini weekend in between
Working 8-6 every day did suck a bit, but I mostly got the first & last hour to myself as nobody else was doing the same shift
Would recommend if your work pattern allows it
4 days of 7.5h is an improvement and still far from being physiologically aligned
