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Four-day working week

Avatar: %{name} Dariusz Michniak
20/04/2021 00:57   17 comments
1. More time for personal development.
2. More time for the family.
3. Longer rest and the possibility of further tourist trip.
More days off is very good for the tourism, service and entertainment industries.
Working 5 days a week for 8 hours a day plus 2h for commuting is a modern form of slavery. People need time to themselves. They want to broaden their horizons, not only professionally.

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Avatar: %{name} Michele Zilli
Avatar: %{name} Vanessa P
Avatar: %{name} Hannes Johne
Avatar: %{name} Felix Kriedemann
Avatar: %{name} Thibaut D
Avatar: %{name} Samu Kankaanpää
Avatar: %{name} Mario Giugno
Avatar: %{name} Jonas Ritz
Avatar: %{name} Alan Bartol
Avatar: %{name} Ákos Sarkadi
Avatar: %{name} Vahid Baharvand
Avatar: %{name} Patrick Francisco
Avatar: %{name} Diogo Roberto
Avatar: %{name} Andrej Foltín
Avatar: %{name} Massimo Modica
Avatar: %{name} Gabriel Garrido Maldonado
Avatar: %{name} Timotheos Agathocleous
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Avatar: %{name} Arturs Stramkals
Avatar: %{name} Robert Kozlowski
Avatar: %{name} Alexander Klein
Avatar: %{name} Tamira Horn
Avatar: %{name} Nicole Jacobs
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Avatar: %{name} Niklas Fromme
Avatar: %{name} Mihai Cioroianu
Avatar: %{name} Petko Kirilov
Avatar: %{name} Alessandro Di Francesco
Avatar: %{name} Felix Thomas Mendner-Mattes
Avatar: %{name} David Clemente
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Avatar: %{name} Kevin Ronsse
Avatar: %{name} Louise Sugg
Avatar: %{name} Guillermo Rubio
Avatar: %{name} Chiara Margaretha Przybilla
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Avatar: %{name} Florian Ackermann
Avatar: %{name} Patrizio Lainà
Avatar: %{name} Marc Steiert
Avatar: %{name} Georg Sesterhenn
Avatar: %{name} Geert Casteleyn
Avatar: %{name} Alonso Campos
Avatar: %{name} Sonja Schulz
Avatar: %{name} Mihai PAUNESCU
Avatar: %{name} Matti Lammi
Avatar: %{name} Jakob Thomsen
Avatar: %{name} Alex de Jong
Avatar: %{name} Dan Ploesteanu
Avatar: %{name} Pieterjan De Geest
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Avatar: %{name} Maximilian Baumgart
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Avatar: %{name} Joana Marques
Avatar: %{name} Marguerite Culot
Avatar: %{name} Anna Bauernfeind
Avatar: %{name} Marcellino Rau
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Avatar: %{name} Lennart ten Wolde
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How do you intended to enforce this? what about the people working 6 days? what about essential work. where will the employees come from? do you realize this is a restriction of freedom?

If you want to work 5 days because you need the money you should be able to, and encouraged to do so.
Citizens are not children that need handholding. The EU should not restrict freedom and let it's citizens choose how much they want to work.5, 4, or 0 days. up to you.

Avatar: %{name} Massimo Modica
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It has been already done in the past. We can and should make it again:

https://robinpowered.com/blog/history-of-5-day-work-week-shorter-hours

Avatar: %{name} K R
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It is about freedom, to be the 4 days a week a standard for the same money, you can altogether choose to work for more days if you want, it is up to you(where I live you already do not gain more income with more workdays). BUT, it is a fact that in a lot of positions it can be profitable, e.g. as mentioned above, tourism, average mental health among people, thus every sector would profit from it. It would be no loss of any freedom, even a gain for more free time if you choose to.

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