The Four Day Work Week

[erpowers]

The money section of CNN.com has a story discussing the past predictions of a coming four day work week and how those predictions turned out to be wrong, at least for United States workers. The story was surprising and interesting. I did not know it had been predicted that workers would be working 15 hours a week.

http://money.cnn.com/2013/07/09/news/economy/shorter-work-week/index.html?section=money_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmoney_topstories+%28Top+Stories%29

[NoOneMan]

1. A lot of people only work 15 hours a week

I mean...well, we are there more but Youtube, Twitter, etc....

[angstlessk]

2. Just tonight I was remembering in the early days of the internet

they talked about how innovation would free us up for personal/family time..and work hours would be shared/lowered and we would all be better off...

Yeah, right....THEN GREED TOOK OVER

[awoke_in_2003]

3. Or the early days of computers...

remember the talk about the paperless office? Hell, now it is so easy to generate documents that we probably have more paperwork than ever.

[angstlessk]

4. Ah, yes...when I worked for an insurance company we had to tape together

large ledger paper for our month end reports and for our 5 year long range forecasts..it would take a week, and trust me..there were not many copies for everyone....only the upper, upper echelon got copies, now, with excel, we could punch it out in a day or two and print copies for everyone in the office...on cheap copy paper..yes, paperless indeed!

Also, when only women (or mostly) used typewriters for everything, no one heard of carpel tunnel, or repeat motion syndrome, but when men began using computers regularly..it became an epidemic...

[awoke_in_2003]

5. We men can be a pain sometimes...

[angstlessk]

6. Well, let's say when you are IN paid it is noticed

I love men, which has been my downfall I am old now, so not so much