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> Seems you think that a 4 day work week is paid as 5 is currently.

Cost of living doesn't magically drop 20% just because you're not working that 5th day.

> Cost of living doesn't magically drop 20% just because you're not working that 5th day

Nobody living at their cost of living is in the ballpark for a 4-day workweek in the near future.

But the amount of work you're able to do is. And companies need to make money, they're not s charity. I took a 20% paycut to work only 4 days a week. And I think that is fair, because my output definitely did decrease by 20%. This might not be true for everyone, but all of the "working more efficiently" thing doesn't really help you if you were already working pretty efficiently 5 days a week.

I kinda doubt your output decreased by 20%. Probably fairly close to it, but I'm guessing you got slightly more done on the other days.

> but I'm guessing you got slightly more done on the other days.

Or slightly less due to having to spend more time on overhead and reading up on things. There is a minimum amount of time you have to spend just to be ready to do your job, many current jobs are so poorly managed that most of their time is spent that way.

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