Is it time for the four-day work week? independent journalist and public historian, Taylor C. Noakes and researcher and lecturer at Imperial College London and Central Saint Martins, Mimi Nguyen debate. Opinion
When it comes to the issue of a four-day work week, the conversation begins and ends with a single question: on your deathbed, will you have wished you spent more time at work?
At a bare minimum, Canadian workers should demand a four-day week. And to be perfectly clear, I mean four eight-hour days with no reductions to salary, benefits or paid vacation, and absolutely no expectation of taking work home with you either. John Maynard Keynes, a far more sober intellect than Nixon, was arguing the same point nearly a century ago. It still makes sense that a hard-working population that propels one of the world’s leading economies should be appropriately rewarded, yet this has hardly been our experience.
There are those who would oppose such a measure, just as the elites of a century ago argued against the radical Bolshevik proposal of the five-day work week, or who argued against child labour laws. Yet this knee-jerk reaction won’t fix the problem. When forced to cram five days of work into four, we can expect to work longer, more stressful hours per day, with quality leisure, rest, and family time being forced to pay the deficit.
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