According to Alpert, taking short trips throughout the year may be the most realistic way to accomplish this. Planning a long vacation is bound to be stressful. According to a survey by Project: Time Off , the logistical hassles of traveling often deter people from taking vacations, but with a three- to four-day trip, the logistics become much simpler. Another plus: no long flights, means no jet lag. The survey also shows that heavy workloads and a fear of looking replaceable at work discourage people from taking days off.
Alpert says he actually started suggesting smaller vacations to his clients in when money was an issue during the Great Recession. Whether we admit it or not, many of us are addicted to our devices, with the average person touching their phone 80 times a day , according to recent research — and it's affecting our health. You need day 2 for chores. You got shit you gotta get done. We all do. Spend it in a way that makes you happy. Kyle Shevlin, who's a software engineer and writer from Portland, Oregon, USA, made a case for three-day weekends and explained why it was needed.
He said you needed one day to do nothing after a long work week, just to recharge. Then you needed the second weekend day for chores and the third weekend day to do things that you loved doing. He spoke to Bored Panda about his suggestion and about the responses he got to the tweet. I am someone who loves learning, reading, or listening to whatever I can about economics and the social sciences," he said.
Shelvin says it's important for people to pursue interests outside of work, which helps in the overall development of an individual. I find that there are better times during the day than others for me to do this work optimally. He said that anything beyond those hours meant he was working at a sub-optimal level which wasn't desirable. Schools could be open for a full 9-to-5 day, four days a week, rather than their current partial day operation five days a week, saving parents on the high cost of daycare and state and local budgets on transportation costs.
With 71 percent of Americans working from home during the pandemic, according to Pew Research , the workweek can be redefined post-pandemic. Allowing more time for rest will have significant health benefits for workers, as well as greater opportunities of access for workers with disabilities. Americans work more hours per year than their counterparts in almost all other countries — hundreds more hours than in Japan, Britain, France, and Germany, countries that also have lower rates of heart disease.
With more time for relaxation and leisure, there will be opportunities for those industries that have been most decimated by the pandemic to rebuild and even expand their businesses. The three-day weekend is only one example of what could change post-pandemic. They found that the individuals who worked longer hours — 55 hours per week or more — had a 33 percent increased risk of stroke than people who worked less than 40 hours per week; the overworked employees also had a 13 percent greater risk of developing heart disease compared to their peers who worked fewer hours.
Related: At work, every Friday should be a summer Friday. You'd sleep more. People who work less than 40 hours a week also, not surprisingly, tend to get more sleep, and they also have an easier time falling asleep than their peers who work more than 55 hours per week. Of the 10, employees included in a paper published in the journal Sleep, those who reported working 40 hours a week or less slept more hours, had an easier time falling asleep, and were more likely to wake up feeling refreshed than those who worked longer hours.
The reason, the researchers posit: Working long hours leaves little time to chill. You'd be less of a jerk, probably. Overwork leads to overtiredness, and sleepy people are more likely to be emotional basket cases.
When people are low on energy, they are more likely to misread other people's emotions, even getting the fairly obvious ones — like "happy" and "angry" — wrong. Sleepy people also tend to be more likely to pick fights with their significant others than the well-rested. All of that, plus, you'll be better at your job.
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