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If we were to propose say a 6 day work week with a 3 day weekend do you think it would get rejected more because of religious reasons or because people think it's a bad idea?
If we were to propose say a 6 day work week with a 3 day weekend do you think it would get rejected more because of religious reasons or because people think it's a bad idea?
If there were an outrage it would probably be religion based.
Have you considered that there are only seven days in a week, and you cant squeeze in 6+3 of them?
The calendar can be re-sonstructed to form 9-day weeks, but only an American would propose that the calendar be rebuilt from time to time, just to accommodate changes in what might be a currently fashionable workplace schedule to meet America's convenience.
Have you considered that there are only seven days in a week, and you cant squeeze in 6+3 of them?
The calendar can be re-sonstructed to form 9-day weeks, but only an American would propose that the calendar be rebuilt from time to time, just to accommodate changes in what might be a currently fashionable workplace schedule to meet America's convenience.
There would be no need to change any calender, the work calender can be separate from the Gregorian Calender (The one currently in use for most of the world's commerce) They are very many calenders currently in use. Most are religious calenders.
Some people do work on a schedule that does not correspond to the Calender week. My daughter for a long time used to work a 9 day week Three 12 hour days on duty, 3 days on call and 3 days off.
It wouldn't be a "work week". There is no reason why an employer needs to wait until somebody "proposes" a work week containing a different number of days. It has been done for decades in some industries, and would not be practical at all in others.
If we were to propose say a 6 day work week with a 3 day weekend do you think it would get rejected more because of religious reasons or because people think it's a bad idea?
Bad idea.
Simpler to keep seven day week and go to four day work week and three day weekend.
While we're at it though let's have some fun and change the names of the days of the week?
Or get rid of the months altogether as part of increasing math skills? Let's align the days by number beginning and ending with Winter Solstice. Although admittedly it would be northern hemisphere specific.
Calendar would look like
New Year Day! or (2 days) on leap years.
Winter 1-91 day one is Winter Solstice (conventional Dec 21)
Vernal 1-91 day one is vernal equinox (conventional Mar 20)
Summer 1-91 day one is summer solstice (conventional June 21)
Autumnal 1-91 day one is autumnal equinox (conventional September 23)
Todays date would be V25, 2014
But then we'd lose out on all those songs like Frank Sinatra's "That's Life", and Neil Sedaka's "Calendar Girl", Niel Diamond's "September Morn", Al Jolson's "April Showers" et al
So let's keep the months and align them so
W01-30 December
W31-60 January
W61-91 February
V01-30 March
V31-60 April
V61-91 May
S01-30 June
S31-60 July
S61-91 August
A01-30 September
A31-60 October
A61-91 November
But wait, then we'd lose that poem 30 days hath September, April, June and November
oh jeez, now we've come full circle. Yea, let's just go to four day work weeks....
But then, why not for the fun of it. make, one hundred seconds in a minute, one hundred minutes in an hour and twenty hours in a day? Wouldn't that (once adjusted accordingly) make telling time easier?
Good point. I wonder what employers would naturally set the work week to be if there were no influences from the calendar. IE: no months, weeks, or days of the week... just numbers until the next year.
Good point. I wonder what employers would naturally set the work week to be if there were no influences from the calendar. IE: no months, weeks, or days of the week... just numbers until the next year.
In much of the world there is no work week, everyone works 7 days a week 365 days a year. A lot will depend upon the nature of the major income source. For non-industrialized nations it often means no days off.
In much of the world there is no work week, everyone works 7 days a week 365 days a year. A lot will depend upon the nature of the major income source. For non-industrialized nations it often means no days off.
This, and there are other nations more "advanced" than the US which have shorter work hours (not necessarily work weeks). For the rest of us, pay is mostly hourly so people are paid by the hour, not by the day or the week or the year. I doubt you will find any American employer willing to cut work hours without cutting pay.
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let's have some fun and change the names of the days of the week? 
