How Most People Prefer Getting Their 40 Hour Work Week
It used to be that if you had a full time job that was based on a total 40 hour work week, you worked a total of 8 hours per day. Depending on the type of job you worked the typical 9 – 5 with a lunch break at noon.
If you worked a job that required shift work, you still got in your 40 hours but, your hours were not necessarily conventional. Perhaps you worked the second shift or for most the dreaded overnight third shift.
Most companies were set up to be open for business Monday through Friday and you were expected to be on the job during those work hours. If you had to work more than that, it was considered overtime and hopefully you were paid time and a half for it.
COVID 19 changed the workplace forever
Ever since those days during the world wide pandemic and subsequent shutdown everything about our workplace and routine has changed. Before COVID if you told your boss that you would like to work from home, they probably would have either laughed or escorted you out the door.
Now it’s very common to work remotely from home. Nobody would bat an eye at someone who hardly ever comes into work anymore. We all know someone that may hardly ever see their colleagues in person.
Not only are we working outside the office, but many people are starting to get their 40 hours in by working in an entirely different way. Most of us still do the 9 to 5 Monday through Friday thing, but if we had it all on way, what would be the ideal work week to get your 40 hours in?
Here’s how people responded to the poll
26% said the typical set-up: Five 8-hour workdays.
40% said they’d like an extra day off, so: Four 10-hour days.
15% said they’d like two extra days off, and could do: Three 13-hour days.
13% said they’d like SHORTER shifts, so: Six 6-hour days. (That’s not 40 hours. It might have to be six 6-hour, 40-minute workdays.)
2% of people said they’d prefer to do two 20-hour workdays. And another 4% would want to do just ONE shift . . . working 40 hours straight.
so there you have it, the days of working Monday through Friday 9 to 5 may be coming to an end soon. And that’s not such a bad thing is it? I for one wouldn’t mind having Fridays off.
