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Less Discussed Benefits of a 4-day Workweek

Three-day weekends are only the beginning

Adam Campbell-Schmitt
Greener Pastures Magazine
1 min readApr 11, 2023

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  • Decreased exposure to small talk.
  • Casual Thursdays.
  • No longer any chance of that weird, overly positive guy in the elevator saying “humpday.”
  • One less sad desk lunch salad in your diet.
  • One more bowl of lunch cereal in your diet.
  • Anxiety relief from fewer meetings during which you might accidentally unleash a one-cheek squeak.
  • Swap 9 hours of poor desk chair posture for 9 hours of engaged sofa fetal positioning.
  • 20% less terrifying Sunday Scaries.
  • More facetime with your mail carrier.
  • More quality time mindlessly scrolling your phone while slouching on your toilet.
  • Find out just why the hell Arby’s opens at 10 a.m. if they don’t serve breakfast.
  • Time to focus on your passion project: napping.
  • Enjoy at least one spoiler-free episode of The Price Is Right.
  • One less office dress code-appropriate outfit to launder.
  • One more day to wear those workplace-inappropriate holey sweatpants before laundering.
  • The return of the ABC Network’s hilarious “TGIT” sitcom lineup.
  • Only 4 days to wait between listenings of Loverboy’s “Everybody’s Working for the Weekend.”
  • Finally get that part time job you desperately need in order to retire.

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Adam Campbell-Schmitt
Greener Pastures Magazine

A writer and editor living, laughing, and loving in the NYC suburbs. Twitter: @adamcswrites