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Re:For 11 Years, the Soviet Union Had No Weekends by soneil on Sunday October 07, 2018 @02:51PM (#18162051)
It is sensible, on the face of it. It just doesn't appear to scale.

Once you and your partner are both on shifts, any semblance of a weekend is gone. I worked 3-on 2-off for a long time, it was fantastic. Then once I got a live-in partner, on a regular 9-5, I was unavailable for 40% of her weekends. That was a stretch.

Add in kids, and it'll get even messier. If mom's day off is Tuesday, dad's day off is Thursday, and the kids have the weekend off?

It works for the factory, but the more of the same family you put on opposing shifts, the messier it gets.

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Re:For 11 Years, the Soviet Union Had No Weekends by TomK32 on Sunday October 07, 2018 @03:12PM (#18162141)
Scheduling is hard but in a factory you have a wider range of workers in different life circumstances, add small factor to the pay on unpopular days and it could work. Here in Germany hairdressers are closed on Mondays because they are open on Saturdays. If we can finally move on to the four-workday-week we can also think about rescheduling work more flexible with the help of computers.
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