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Three speakers debate whether a four-day workweek could work in America. They discuss how it would affect clients, employee pay, hiring costs, and profit margins, and compare it to experiments already running in Europe.
Three speakers debate whether a four-day workweek could work in America. They discuss how it would affect clients, employee pay, hiring costs, and profit margins, and compare it to experiments already running in Europe.
One time someone pitched me, they're like, Neil, we need Fridays off. Okay, why?
Well, if we have Fridays off, we'll be able to recharge and we'll do better.
I was like, okay, what about the clients?
Well, the clients will still pay the same and they expect the same work.
Okay, what about the pay? Because people now get extra day off.
Oh no, no, everyone will get paid the same.
All right, so the clients get less work done because there's less days in a week, the people get paid the same. So now I got to hire more to make up for that in a business that already has low margins. So then I make what, no money to negative money? And then I got to make it work? I'm like, this is not logical.
You cannot Yeah, I'll tell you, like a lot of the 4-day workweek companies, they talk about the experiments that have worked in Europe, but I think in American culture, it's probably gonna be tougher to roll that out. I think at least right now, you know, over the next 5 years, that's not gonna become a big thing. We don't know how the world's gonna look in 10 years.
