I don’t understand the concept in terms of how it would help?

obviously it depends on the situation but i think it could be a very good idea. jane & trish and martha work 8 hours less each a wk (and it could be spread over 5 days if they so choose since people seem to have an issue with what to do with a day off which btw i find amazing!) so that sue doesn’t have to be let go. what’s so complicated about that? its called everyone trying to help out. helping everyone try to maintain. of course it means that jane & trish and martha have to make adjustments in their own lives but is it not worth it? for the greater good.

I love 4-day work weeks. For the well being of the country it’s ground breaking, cost savings is huge and employees retain their incomes staving off greater peril to our voilitile economy.

It will work for some companies and not for others. I don’t see this as an either/or. If this depression is going to teach us anything it will be to think outside the box and to be flexible.

Again, it can be a 4 day work week so that more people can have something—-or it can be status quo, and more taxes being used to support those who have no job——to me it is a no-brainer….”something” is better than ‘nothing’. BTW, I spoke with someone yesterday on the phone, whose hours were cut back, in my town, to 30 hours a week. Do you know what she did? She contacted a Catholic Social Services agency. She learned there were children who were homeless, yet too old for the Foster Care system—-and too young to sign a lease—-she has 3 girls living in her home, gets $350 each, per month, to provide a home for them, and two meals a day…and it helps her pay her bills, while helping the girls with their desparate lives. A lot of homeless people out there, who could use a hand-up instead of a handout—-especially those whose houses were foreclosed on, when their ARM loans doubled their mortgage payments! I ALSO learned about a family who is now living in a one bedroom apartment—-I should say ‘extended’ family—-as two of the homes they had were forclosed on, and they have ‘tripled up’——-there are 15 people living in that one bedroom apartment!!!!! To have no job, at all—-and in case you all are not aware—once your home has been foreclosed on—no matter how credit-worthy you were before then—your credit rating tanks, and employers will not hire you, if you have bad credit—-and landlords will not let you rent their apaprtments, if you have bad credit—and a foreclosure is a biggy being used against people. Remember my Aunt? She had to get a co-signer with good crdit, in order to move into an apartment after her home of over 40 years, was stolen from her via ARM loan……..

New owners of the company I work at are cruel. I work for a new boss who doesn’t much care if your employed or not. Let me repharse that. I work for a boss that if you look at him crosseyed, you could get fired. I swear alot under my breath. I put in my 40 hours a week and make $26,000 a year. $26,000 a year, how many of you could live on that? I have no pets, haven’t got money to go on a vacation, or go to the movies. Hell, I’ve never seen the ocean, or been anywhere warm during the winter months. I can’t make anymore cutbacks. Cutting my job to 32 hours a week would bring my wages to $20,800 a year. Not sure if I could pay ALL the taxes from that. And, not all of us here are retired. I believe I will be working for a very long time.