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3 day weekends. Solved. 50% longer, 100% better. Treat the disease, not the symptoms.

As long as it doesn’t come with 12 hour days.

I Honestly think 3 x 12 hour days would be better than 5 * 7.5.

The amount of creative work that can be accomplished in a day is finite, regardless of the length of the workday. The only way you could shift a work schedule that much is if you substantially change the type of work being done, and accept that you would get less creative work per week while gaining more resources in other areas such as rote tasks or physical labor.

Not everyone can produce creative work every day, either.

The vast majority of my work is not particularly creative.

Documentation, meetings, replying to emails answering someones question.

When get to do some coding its not usually especially complex. Occasionally it is, but I imagine having longer days would be easier to get 4 hours "in the zone", something which happens rarely at present.

The problem with only working 3 days is the first day back will be mostly spend getting back in the groove / remembering what you were working on.

I am a fan of 5 x 6 hours and 4 x 8 hours.

But you get that every day, to a lesser extent. So it may work out better.

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