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The problem most people don't mention is you need to rope public school into the same equation or else you're leaving that entire, extremely large, workforce out which involves maintenance, custodians, IT, nurses, useless administration, teachers, etc etc etc.
No one said everybody had to work the same four days. If one custodian works Monday - Thursday and another works Tuesday - Friday, that still covers a full 5 day week. The whole reason for a 4 day work week is that, right now, life is all work all the time. If you work a 9-5 Monday - Friday and you need to go to the doctor, who is only open 9-5 Monday - Friday, the only way to see them is to take time off of work.
There's really no reason for doctors to be closed on weekends. It kinda pisses me off. Just take off tues weds or something
I mean, just saying, I went to a highschool from 2006-2010 that already operated on 4 day weeks. It can be done easy enough.
Fewer hours each week would be better for schools than summer vacation.
The latter is historically based on family farming.
Now children are overburdened most of the year, and idle and bored for the rest.