Sign me up! I'd love a 4 day workweek.

I agree with bakoblue ... what has to be done on a monday or friday that cannot be done the rest of the week?

I worked a 4 day week for a job I had in college @ a group home; Sun - Wed 10am-8pm. Loved it.

and now Tuesday is the new Monday

There are some jobs where it doesn't matter what your hours are on paper, you'll still be coming in on your "day off". A university in particular seems to be an environment where trying to do a 4-day week is not going to work. Students and faculty tend to stick around well after normal hours as long as they can get in. I know the joke when I was in graduate school was that the lights never turned off in our graduate research computer labs except on holidays, and not always even then, because students were around at all hours of the day. Other university employees will of course be following the 4-day work week and that will save some energy as those areas shut down for the weekend, but I doubt the whole campus will go "dark" Friday through Sunday. You'll still find students and faculty wandering around on at least Friday I bet.

Oh, I'll be swarming all over a four-day work week if it is ever offered at my place of employment.

 I currently work something similar, a 4 day (12 hour days) on and 4 days off....  and boy do I love it! I think many people would enjoy the benefits of a 4 day work week for the same reasons I do, increased family time and  more time to get projects done around the house! The benefits are limitless.

I love the idea of working less hours and getting paid more! I worked for 8 years in a medical office M-F, 8-5. Now, I am going to school to be a nurse. They usually work three 12 hour shifts a week which really appeals to me.

My dad is a county fire captain. He works 2 days on, 2 days off, 2 days on, 2 days off, 2 days on then 8 days off. It usually works out to working 10 days a month. Not bad, huh!!

I currently work about 2-3 days a week 4 hours a day.  It's rough, but someone has to do it.

Of course the downside is no full time pay or any benefits but hey, I can live with that.

I'd like the County to give us the option.

When I worked, I was on salary, and everyday was a 10 hour day, no overtime. So it would be no big deal for me to work 4 days, 10 hours. The only thing would be the "need" to go in on the 5th day just to keep up with the work!

Actually, Bakersfield College has been doing the 4-10 every summer for several years now. In actuality, the M-F hrs constituted 9 hr days with an hour for lunch! M-Th is 7:30-5:30 with half an hour for lunch.  I was the one person in a one person dept. and I always put in at least 10+ hr days!! Sometimes a Sat. or I took work home with me!  

Somebody check my math because "Employees will work from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. with an hour lunch break" comes out to a nine-hour day and 36 hours over four days.  Lazy reporter or bad fact-checking?

Mildmannered, Unless it's changed since February the county does give that option.  Well, sort of.  The 9/80 gives you a four day week every other week.   I often wondered why they didn't just make it 4/10's and save the headache of remembering which day you come in at what time on any week.

(And if anyone wonders why I'm posting in the wee hours, it's because I fell asleep on the couch and woke up wide eyed and ready for the blog.  Well actually, couldn't go back to sleep so this was the second choice.)

I usually work about 55 hours a week, but about 15-20 of those hours are at my home office.

FIVE:  At B.C. it was a 10 1/2 hr day w/ half hr for lunch, thus working a 10 hr day = 40 actual hrs worked. In the hrs I listed above, I was incorrect - hrs should be 7am-5:30pm w/half hr for lunch. Gots to get them 8 hrs for the Friday you are off!!!!! Pound of flesh so to speak!

NANCY:  Wee hours!  been there-done that on many occasions!! This week have been waking up at 3:30am - 5am and can't get back to sleep so just get up!

When I worked at Chevron I worked 9/80's.  4/10 makes more sense to me...

I have the same question as fivehole. I'm on a 9-80 with an hour lunch break, but I work 7:30-5:30. So how is it that the CSUB employees work 7-5 with an hour for lunch, but have every Friday off? That's a 36-hour work week, not 40. Reporting error, or CSUB perk?

Laurah:  I just received my CSUB Alumni e-newsletter announcing the new 7 a.m. - 6 p.m. summer hours starting on July 7. It is indeed a reporter error and not a CSUB perk. 

4-10s would be sweet!

Thanks for the information, fivehole. Perhaps we should offer the Californian reporter new glasses or a new calculator.

I don't think they are going to change the school days for me. But imagine a 4 school day week. I'm usually at work from 7am to 4:30pm anyway. What's another 30 minutes. Imagine what we would save on fuel (buses, etc) and electricity (no computers, AC, etc). However, parents with little ones would need childcare. And it is a whole other day for the older ones to get in trouble.

I don't think I'm alone on this but in a lot of cases, an hour for lunch is just too long.  I took my lunch because it's too expensive to eat out and when in Wasco there wasn't anything to do for an hour.  I always took the half hour and was able to leave a little early. 

Lunches with co workers tended to end up in shop talk which was no break at all.

I think labor law dictates a minimum meal break, Nancy. Another one of those nasty ol' liberal ideas.

For every two hours you work you are required to have a minimum of a ten minute paid break.  Before the fifth hour you are required to take at least a half hour unpaid break.  If it goes past the fifth hour, the company can be held liable even if it's your fault as it's their responsibility to see to it you get your rest periods. 

I can't speak for other WM's but when I worked at Rosedale, you would get written up if you violated the law and toward the end, you'd get locked out of the time clock after the fifth hour and had to get a manager to sign you off.  A couple of those and you'd be handed a pink slip.