tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19268887.post113979774347295217..comments2024-03-17T18:44:03.058+11:00Comments on Lazy Luddite Log: Four Day WeekDanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12710148812664294219noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19268887.post-1140392814602031572006-02-20T10:46:00.000+11:002006-02-20T10:46:00.000+11:00Me once more...I just want to thank those commenti...Me once more...<BR/><BR/>I just want to thank those commenting for commenting only on the issue-related aspects of my post rather than the personal stuff. I felt a bit exposed in writing that stuff and am relieved to have been spared any kind of cross-examination (even if well-intentioned). <BR/><BR/>For me it suffices for that stuff simply to be known rather than having to discuss it. My post pretty much answers its own questions anyway.Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12710148812664294219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19268887.post-1140392597005128452006-02-20T10:43:00.000+11:002006-02-20T10:43:00.000+11:00To JiriWow - a city divided into two shifts - I as...<EM>To Jiri</EM><BR/><BR/>Wow - a city divided into two shifts - I assume this was some crazy communist era thing. Two shifts is too few - the more shifts the better for a cohesive society - lots and lots of 'overlappiness'. Flexibility is important too - if you can get days off for specific imporant (e.g. family) events then it's okay to work different times.<BR/><BR/><EM>To Ari</EM><BR/><BR/>I think resistance to working Sundays comes from the right too: They (some of them) want nothing to get in the way of attending church...<BR/><BR/>So you prefer five days as the norm or as something for absolutely everyone? Surely a part of flexibility is allowing for different durations in the working week. Naturally a person working four days is sacrificing a day of pay but if they are prepared to do that for the sake of more spare time then so be it.Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12710148812664294219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19268887.post-1140335626556095092006-02-19T18:53:00.000+11:002006-02-19T18:53:00.000+11:00I think you've just scratched the surface on huge ...I think you've just scratched the surface on huge issue: the division between Monday-Friday 9-5 on one hand, and all other times on the other. There is an ingrained prejudice that suggests the first set of times are the 'proper' times to work, whilst others are 'strange'. There is no inherent basis to this, merely our social history.<BR/><BR/>Look, for example, at the restrictive hours operated by banks, which seem to have missed out on the past forty years of history. <BR/><BR/>Look also at the uproar last year during the industrial relations debate, when some on the left were devastated to hear that people might be scheduled to work on a, wait for it, Sunday!!! Some of us already do, and happy doing so, although we are treated like second-class citizens in the process.<BR/><BR/>It comes down to a core hypocracy: most of us love the idea of shopping and dining in evenings and on weekends, yet many for some reason think of working at these times as strange. Who's pouring your drink?<BR/><BR/>I wouldn't agree with you that we should change from a 5-2 split to a 4-3 split, but I do agree that we need much more flexibility in the times and days constitute the '5'.<BR/><BR/>As for the fallacy that us night time people are lazy or sinister, whilst the bright and early people are inherently virtuous, it's a rant for another time.Ari Sharphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06077102567908140945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19268887.post-1139803845262202452006-02-13T15:10:00.000+11:002006-02-13T15:10:00.000+11:00Hmm, one of the books on my to-read stack has stag...Hmm, one of the books on my to-read stack has staggered shifts as the title element of the story... Cory Doctorow's Eastern Standard Tribe... haven't read it yet, though, so I can't really comment.<BR/><BR/>One interesting question with staggered shifts would be the "two-body problem" - how to make sure everyone in your family gets the weekends on the same days. Not to mention all the friends you want to hang out with.<BR/><BR/>Prague used to have staggered spring school break - first one half of the city, then the other - and we used to have that problem in our family...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com