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Less Discussed Benefits of a 4-day Workweek
Three-day weekends are only the beginning
1 min readApr 11, 2023
- 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.
