“I hate Mondays.”
“It’s Friday.”
“It’s humpday, we’re halfway there.”
Such are the familiar bemoans of those who work the standard, five-day, forty-hour workweek. On the other side of the pond, I believe they call it the working week.
The forty-hour workweek, like Daylight Savings, is one of those facts of life that folks just seem to accept without question. Â And like so many regulations, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 was born of the Depression.
Well, the great state of Utah is balking at the standard five-day workweek. Â Last year, under the Working 4 Utah initiative, Utah, by executive order, put 17,000 of the 24,000 state executive branch employees on notice that from here on out, their services would not be needed. On Fridays, that is.
The program’s been in place for a year and has a multitude of benefits including environmental, financial, and peace of mind-al.
Imagine a three-day weekend every week.
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Brian King said:
That is an initiative I can get behind. But since I work online, I’d find it impossible to stay away from work on those three off days!
August 27th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Great History said:
[...] I could get behind an initiative to make every week a 4 day work week! http://greathistory.com/the-four-day-workweek.htm [...]
August 27th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Frank Chadwick said:
Years ago Illinois State University used to follow a four-day work week in the summer, to save on air conditioning costs. They may still do so, for all I know. “R” was the one-letter abbreviation for Thursday on class schedules, and so “T.G.I.R.” buttons abounded.
August 28th, 2009 at 1:52 pm