Australians are working too much - it's time to fight for a 4 day work week.
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elizabethwatsonbrown

2024-03-20 06:35:50

australians are working too much
we're working too much over time
where on our work emails after hours
we're staying back late
australians work six weeks of unpaid overtime each per year
it's quite bizarre that we won the forty hour week seventy five years ago
and instead of reducing the workweek further as technology progressed we're actually working more hours a day now than back in the fifties
in nineteen thirty the great economist john maynard keynes said that we'd be working fifteen hour weeks by now
one point four million australians are now working fifty hour weeks so it's about time
we started fighting for a four day week it may seem like a radical step
but so did the eight hour day and a four day week would transform our lives as significantly as the eight-hour day more time for family
more time for friends more time for doing the things that make life meaningful
more time for the beach more time for community organisations and activities more time to raise kids it's clear from the small target approach of this government that if we're going to win a four-day week we're going to need to fight for it or francois e watson brown serene greens trigger