How long should the weekend be?

“Do you think if Friday was the weekend, and Thursday was Friday, that it would be as hard to work on Thursday as it is on Friday?”

I think it was after having seen the stream of facebook messages which all had similar meaning.

It is hard to work on Friday because once you are finished you are FREE!

Think about this.  It is 11am Friday morning, and you are sitting there halfheartedly working on a not so important work project.  Clicking around on the computer, reading whatever not work related websites you can access through your companies firewall. You are READY to GO!  It does not matter what you plan on doing once you leave work, all that matters is that it is what YOU want to be doing.

Almost like the anxiety you get when waiting for christmas eve to end and christmas morning to be there. The same feeling you get right before the big game that you and your team have been practicing for all year.  It’s the weekend, it’s your time to do whatever you want.

So I started thinking, what if you had more time to do what you want. How many days of doing whatever you want to do are fulfilling enough to warrant a feeling of going back to work?

Hence the question, “Do you think if Friday was the weekend, and Thursday was Friday, that it would be as hard to work on Thursday as it is on Friday?”

Would you get more work done if you only worked Monday through Thursday than a full 5 day schedule? Would you get that same feeling at 11am on Thursday morning knowing that as soon as you get off work you’ll be free again?

Based on the replies that I received, the general consensus is Yes, it would be just as hard to work as it is on Friday right now.

Ok, lets take it to one more day.  Thursday is now the weekend, you are only working 3 full days, Monday through Wednesday.

You take your job seriously, there are things you have to do in order for business to keep on trucking.  Are three 8 hour days long enough?  Do you think if you really buckled down for those 24 hours in the week you would be able to get everything done?

Instead of going to Tuesday being the last day of the work week, I want to try and flesh out an idea about this and commerce.

I suppose it really all depends on where your income is coming from, and what your income is numbers wise, for this idea to really get detailed. So lets just go with a standard 9 – 5 M – F work week. No 24 hour shops, no 7 day shops.

Most employers require that you work 40 hours a week.  This has been stable now for quite some time, and at least the last 15 or so years that I have been working.

At 32 hours a week you have to be really on your hustle to fit in 40 hours worth of work. If you had 40 hours worth of work to do.  If you had about 8 hours a week of idle time at the office, you at least now get to spend that time at home.

Cut to Wednesday and that is only 24 hours of work time to do what you normally do in 40 hours.  Can you do it? And if so, why are you not already doing that? Why drag out 24 hours worth of work for 40 hours?

Anyways, I guess I am starting to babble.  These are just some things to think about.  Maybe after some more diliberation one of us can come up with a solution that will give everyone more free time to do what they want and less time at work.

What if working is what you want to do in your free time?

- b