How Does a 9/80 Work Schedule Work Out? 1055
cellocgw writes "My company is in the process of implementing a version of '9/80,' a work schedule that squeezes 80 hours' labor time into 9 business days and provides every other Friday off. I was wondering how this has been implemented in other companies, and how it's worked out for other Slashdot readers. Is your system flexible? Do you find time to get personal stuff done during the week? Is Friday good for anything other than catching up on lost sleep? And perhaps most important, do your managers respect the off-Fridays, or do they pull people in on a regular basis to handle 'crises?'"
Just a second, here... (Score:5, Funny)
... Are they hiring?
MIB (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Lost sleep? (Score:5, Funny)
If it does, just eat through lunch.
Nonsense! Why would lunch be for eating?
Seriously... (Score:5, Funny)
...this is what Ask Slashdot has been reduced to? Asking how a rather small change to a weekly schedule might work out?
Future Ask Slashdots We Can Look Forward To:
Re:Crises (Score:5, Funny)
Or, send them an invoice from your consulting firm for about six times whatever your daily rate is.
Yeah, that way you'll have a lot of time to look for a new job.
Re:Seriously... (Score:5, Funny)
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Sheesh!
Re:"Summer Hours" (Score:2, Funny)
Wow! You really are new here, aren't you?
Re:Lost sleep? (Score:1, Funny)
Agree. The lunch hour is reserved for mandatory training.
Re:Lost sleep? (Score:5, Funny)
I prefer to lunch through work myself, ymmv.
Re:Lost sleep? (Score:5, Funny)
just eat through lunch
This statement is baffling on so many levels.
80 hours (Score:5, Funny)
I already work 80 hours.
Oh wait, 9 days. Ok, I see what you mean now. I thought you meant 5.
Re:I'd rather have 4/36 (Score:4, Funny)
My father did the 12 hour 3on/4off/4on/3off for years...He said 12 hour days consisted of...He would show up at 9...Take a 2 hour lunch, well that adds up to 11 and leave at 1...and that adds up to 12!
Re:I'd rather have 4/36 (Score:4, Funny)
I remember working a schedule like that when I was in my teens..
3 work, 2 off, 2 work, 3 off... something like that...
*SIGH* the time flew while flipping burgers.....
Re:80 hours (Score:5, Funny)
I have a system where I only work 6 half days.... 12hrs each day... sigh.
Re:I'd rather have 4/36 (Score:5, Funny)
I'm a firefighter. I work 24 on, 48 off. As long as there aren't calls during the night, I get paid to sleep. Relevant to your question? No. Friggin' Awesome schedule anyways? Yes.
Re:Lost sleep? (Score:3, Funny)
But again, that doesn't make sense. It would if you said "working through your lunch break" - but "working through lunch" would mean that lunch somehow enables your work. Likewise, "eating through lunch" is bizarre. You "eat your lunch" - I'm not sure what "eating through lunch" would mean something like you only eat the center of your meal.
The other odd aspect is; how does taking your lunch break to eat, make a longer working day any shorter?
Re:I'd rather have 4/36 (Score:5, Funny)
If I could, I'd gladly shed 20% of my pay for a 4-day workweek. I might even be persuaded to shed more than 20% to get a four-day work week. :-) I would not, however, want to lose time in my evenings to work more hours to get the same or similar pay. Well, some evenings it would be okay, but other days I'd have to make it up on the front end because of evening activities, and I wouldn't much like making it up on the front end. (Wait, there's a 7:00 in the morning? Why didn't anyone tell me!?!)
Re:I'd rather have 4/36 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:feh (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sound better then 5/80 (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah, stupid American's. I mean the GDP of the US is the same as what ... Ghana. They are all over worked, lazy, and I have never met a productive American. And lastly when is the last time the US has done anything productive. They hardly win any Nobel Prizes anyway. Stupid Americans.
Viva La [fill in your European Country].
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Productivity is measured by GDP/Population:
US GDP: 13.8T / 306M = $45,098
EU GDP: 16.9T / 491M = $34,419
Compare the US to EU, do not pick some random country in order to boost your numbers. Otherwise you include North Dekota into the mix and reduce the numbers on the US side.
Based on this US workers generate more than 25% more per person than Europeans. You do have an extra 2.5 hours to spend every week.
Re:I'd rather have 4/36 (Score:3, Funny)
Yes you can, but first you will need two SSNs ... :-)
Re:I'd rather have 4/36 (Score:5, Funny)
Which is why I encourage my employer to pay me more than $102,000. Not only do I get taxed less, but so does my employer. Alas, they didn't see the logic in my argument, nor in the charts which showed the average person with my experience in my position earning $120k in my locale.
Re:I worked 9/80 for 4 summers (Score:1, Funny)
I'm seriously considering to write into my next contract, language that requires them to make reasonable compensation for travel or entertainment that I have to forego at the company's insistence.
i heard a great line from someone at work the other day...
"I get to choose when I go on holidays. My boss chooses whether I come back to work or not."
Re:I'd rather have 4/36 (Score:1, Funny)
As long as there aren't calls during the night, I get paid to sleep.
Yeah but there's always some dweeb comes along who's all "wah wah wah save my house it's burning. wah wah wah come put out the flames"
Re:80 hours (Score:2, Funny)
5/80? Your job must be a slave pit! I get 7/80 with a promise of all my weekends back when I retire.
Re:I'd rather have 4/36 (Score:4, Funny)
Re:80 hours (Score:3, Funny)
That's only 72 hours.
Slacker.
You mean 72 half hours.
Re:I'd rather have 4/36 (Score:1, Funny)
Has he considered not being Mexican?
Re:100 hours?! Luxury!! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I'd rather have 4/36 (Score:4, Funny)
I used to do that back when I worked at the explosives factory... shame it's not there anymore...
Re:Getting Customers to leave you alone Fridays (Score:2, Funny)
In Denmark we have five weeks of holidays each year, and as the law is made, you don't have a right to five weeks, it is your duty to have five weeks of holidays. This means you cannot trade your holidays in for other benefits - you have to go one holiday.
For some reason nobody complains about this egregious limitation of our freedoms :-)
Re:100 hours?! Luxury!! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'd rather have 4/36 (Score:3, Funny)
The Kama Sutra?
Re:80 hours (Score:3, Funny)
What are these "personal relationships" you speak of?