Nebraska Dutchgirl

What sounds good on paper is many times not feasible. Families are fluid. If work days change from 8 hour days to 10 hour days. 10 hour work days, lose the playful times with your family during the week. May work for single or childless families. During the week your life would be on hold 4 days so you can have 3 day weekends every weekend. What I mean on hold is there is no time through the work week except sleep, get you and kids ready for the day, drive to work, school, come home, help with homework, make dinner, clean up, bathe kids, and go to bed. No time for college classes, hobbies or going to the gym, getting a massage, manicure, boy scouts, girl scouts, grocery shop or dinner with spouse. Everything will be so compressed, relaxation and family time suffers. Day care rules will need to change to accomodate 10 hour work day limitation rules. If work days remain 8 hours, then, now you have lost 20% of your pay. In our situation,, we would have a preset mortgage and car payments to pay with 20% less pay. With 32 hours of pay, our family finances will be strained. I will probably need a part time job during the 3 day weekend to make up for lost funds. Where is the quality of life now? This is just a continuation of the 27 hour work week idea by people with no families to force employer's to provide health insurance. How well did that work if you had to hold a second job? All of this is a continuance of the green new deal relabeled to reduce our carbon foot prints under the guise of more time with your family and me time. My son had to work 2 jobs to make ends meet. He ended up sleeping in his truck because of lack of time between jobs. Neither employer appeared to have any loyalty to their employees because he was no longer considered a full time employee working 27 hours. The 27 hour system changed employee and employer relationships. This could be the same for 4 day work weeks. Reality is I raised 3 kids, worked 8 hour days, went to the gym before work, attended college classes after work to advance at work, picked up groceries, helped with homework, prepared dinner, bathed kids while my spouse worked out of town. Any less time at home, I may have broke under the stress. Plus, I may not had enough funds to save for retirement. Get over it. Go to work, have a life 7 days of the week, enjoy your families, they grow up and need you now, save for retirement. It will get here eventually. Enjoy retirement in that season of life. We have raised a soft generation.