...4 days work...

Hi Checapricorn that is just so sad to hear as a lot of people are struggling enough at the moment without the added misery of losing a whole days pay each week but I do suppose this has been done so that they don't eventually end up losing the whole job. I will prayer for them that it is only a temporary measure and that they will soon be back up to a full week again. Pleased to hear that it doesn't affect your husband directly but sad for the families of the ones it does affect. Ellie :D

Many jobs here are doing the same thing, changing to a 4 day work week but they are not loosing any hours, each day is 10 hours of work and then you have off 3 days. Many people I know prefer this.

do you mean that the working days in your country being 4 days from 5 or 6 days work? whooooa, its really surprised me. and what about the working duration per day? still 8 hours per day or more due to resize of this working days? and what about the employees who already have fixed statue? will it effect on their monthly income? honestly, i am being curious for this situation

Four days a week, sounds pretty strange to me. We have 5 days week here, but I have not come across 4 days work policy, at least in my country. Hopefully, the employers would have given it a serious thought, before implementing the same.

Hello checapricorn, If it is during good time, I would definitely grab the offer if they ask me to work 4 days a week. But due to the recent price hike and almost every thing seems to 'goes up', I don't think it is a good idea anymore. It is really bad now and to lose 8 hrs a week is something really really bad. Very fortunate for me that my company is still doing as usual, just that they tighten their yearly budget a little bit.

I am self employed so I don;t have to worry about something like this happening. But my hubby, now ex, works for some big company and this has happened where he has worked before, although it never lasted very long. My husband was in management so it didn't effect his job but for the little guy that worked so hard physically, to get cut back like that, hurt a lot of them. Some of them quit their job and found another job but then came back when asked to by my husband. His company now says they will never do that again, cut back on their hours, and hasn't. They learned that in the long run it only hurt the company. I hope this will be the case with your husbands case, that the company will change it back to 5 days a week as they may lose some good employees because of it.

I didn't know they were doing that. I really don't think people can take losing too much with all the prices going up. We are definately heading toward a depression.

I have a friend Elaine that has had to go on a 4 day a week work schedule..She is Living alone,not by choice and she has been forced to raise her boys by herself..She has done a great job and they are all grown up now,but this has been hard for her too...she does enjoy the day off but it has hurt her in other ways,she has a hard time fiancially as it is...Hopefully it will not last too long.She works at a law enforcement...

The way I've heard it is that they are instituting 4 day work weeks, but wanting the people to stay for 10 hours, still getting their 40 hours in and only driving 4 days a week.

Hi checapricorn, Though this was not introduced in my place, it is really disturbing to note the reduction of working days in work places. This will bring down the earnings and in my opinion this will only add up to the present economic situation. This is not a good idea. I am sure the present situtaion will change shortly and everything will be alright in few months time, because much more harder situations were brought in to control earlier. Till then I do cross my fingers. Good Luck.

checapricorn hi that will be hard on the ones having to work just four days. I know it was hard on me a numberof years back when our county went broke and myhours at the library were cut from 40 to thiry, and that was wherethey stayed until i was forcibly retired. lol anyways thats rough on those people. glad that did not include your husband.

Like you I feel for those families so much Che,the industry is grinding to a halt where we are in the UK,.what little there is of it anyway..and there are a lot of people who are being laid off of work.The building firms are stopping their new builds,and this has such a knock on effect,from the bricklayers to the roofers,to the jack of all trades that does the odd bits and pieces for them.One of my son in law is a carpet fitter for a massive company,and he is finding that work is starting to slow.Im sure this is a global thing,but I suppose it is a warning to us all ,we have borrowed too much money,and been to frivolous and now we have to tighten the reins.

Heard also that news,even in the Philippines there are proposals of cutting the work days in the government offices and limit the operating hours of malls to slash electricity and fuel consumption.But government offices will work longer hours instead of 8 it will be 10 working hours/day.So nothing is lost.Some see it as an advantage on their part because they have additional days to spend with their family.We'll to about that when they start implementing it.

I don't think they will be losing eight hours, they will just being working four !0 hour days instead of five 8 hour days. Save money in gas, parking, babysitters, etc for an entire day. I am a teacher and wonder when they will consider this in schools. They could probably save a ton in gas by only have 4 school days a week where buses have to run.

It's sad the way some companies are paying less, but how tings are cosing more. People are getting hit twice!!!

Some pes here are implimenting a 4 day work week. But they are 10 hours days so they still work 40 hours. It is in an effort to save on fuel I guess. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~

In our country, what most companies do is extend the working hours to offset the additional rest day. This way, the pay would not be affected and the working hours rendered would still be the same. At the same time, they still get to cut down on electricity and other utilities.

I don't have a story like this, but i thought it would be a little better for those that have to travel to work. Some people live at least 25-40 minutes away from where they work. I thought that the 4 day work week would be good. But I could have been a little wrong on that. I didn't consider those that have family issues that would require them to be home after their 8 hr work day was over. Now with two more hours added on, the changes that they might have to make to adjust to a ten hour, four day work week.

During the summer olympics in L.A. several years ago many companies went to a 4 day work week to help stagger the traffic situation. It worked very well too. But they had us work 4 days for 10 hours. That way nobody lost any pay and the system worked just fine. Later on my company allowed those of us who lived more than 50 miles away to stay on that schedule if we wanted to. I lived 80 miles away (one way) and so I did it for 10 years. I loved it...what the heck was another 2 hours if I was there anyway and besides it got me out of the normal rush hour traffic. I had 3 day weekends every week and was finally able to make doctor or dentist appointments on Mondays like regular people. I wouldn't have traded that schedule for anything.

Heard also that news,even in the Philippines there are proposals of cutting the work days in the government offices and limit the operating hours of malls to slash electricity and fuel consumption.But government offices will work longer hours instead of 8 it will be 10 working hours/day.So nothing is lost.Some see it as an advantage on their part because they have additional days to spend with their family.We'll to about that when they start implementing it.