Japan's government plans to encourage 4-day workweek, but experts split

Re:Japan's government plans to encourage 4-day workweek, but... by irrational on Sunday June 20, 2021 @11:30PM (#27576032)

I work at a company where it is encouraged to use the fitness facilities during work hours. 15 minutes walking to one of the gyms, 5 minutes changing, an hour working out, 10 minutes in the sauna, 10 minute shower, 5 minutes getting dressed, 15 minutes walking back. That is 2 hours of my work day right there ;-)

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Re:Japan's government plans to encourage 4-day workweek, but... by thanhhaimai on Sunday June 20, 2021 @11:46PM (#27576116)

Very smart company. May I know the name?

For intellectual work like we what we do, the brain doesn't just stop "working". I tend to be able to come up with good solution while driving/working out/taking a walk/drinking tea...

Only at low levels that I see time-at-keyboard important. Now it's all ambiguous/large scale problems that spending time at the keyboard is a very small portion of my time. It's more productive to keep the problems in mind, then let my mind wandering and arrive at the solutions later. After you design/test/run the solutions in your mind, it only takes a small amount of time to write it out (design doc or code).

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Re:Japan's government plans to encourage 4-day workweek, but... by tartoran on Sunday June 20, 2021 @11:39PM (#27576074)

They are smart, the employees are likely to be more productive if they are healthy. Many companies squeeze up employees like tubes of toothpaste then discard them and hire a younger gen. It is sometimes not intentional, just create a stresful environment and dont allow enough time to employees to catch their breath so to speak

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Re:Japan's government plans to encourage 4-day workweek, but... by tapland on Sunday June 20, 2021 @11:53PM (#27576159)

I felt pretty wrecked when I, mostly because of lack of affordable housing, moved to a team in a location near my home town, and found out every single employee aged <35 had ended up on sick leave. Didn't have any choise but I wish I could have just gotten out of there as fast as I ended up in it.

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Re:Japan's government plans to encourage 4-day workweek, but... by 6f8986c3 on Monday June 21, 2021 @01:14AM (#27576511)

Why? It'd be helpful to get some idea what workplace factors led to such a negative outcome.

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Re:Japan's government plans to encourage 4-day workweek, but... by 8note on Sunday June 20, 2021 @11:40PM (#27576077)

Thinking is work too, and you can think from anywhere

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Re:Japan's government plans to encourage 4-day workweek, but... by Joakal on Sunday June 20, 2021 @11:45PM (#27576110)

Name and promote them. They deserve the extra labour supply.

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Re:Japan's government plans to encourage 4-day workweek, but... by anitil on Sunday June 20, 2021 @11:41PM (#27576081)

That sounds marvelous! I'm looking at a job at the moment that is mostly WFH and working out during the day is something I'm looking forward to most of all.

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Re:Japan's government plans to encourage 4-day workweek, but... by malux85 on Monday June 21, 2021 @12:05AM (#27576219)

This has changed me - I WFH, but every 2 days I take a 2 hour walk, I walk about 7.5KM to the beach and back and while I’m tired at the end of the walk, it’s hugely invigorating and I often end up coding until well after midnight on my own projects with all the extra energy I have.

Have lost quite a lot of weight too … and it’s only been a couple of months. Go for it! Can’t recommend it enough.

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Re:Japan's government plans to encourage 4-day workweek, but... by anitil on Monday June 21, 2021 @01:32AM (#27576587)

Living close enough to the beach to be able to walk is one of my life goals!

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