The Oil Drum | The Four Day Work Week: Sixteen Reasons Why This Might Be an Idea Whose Time Has Come

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2996
The author lists lots of good reasons to go to the four day week and we
already know allot of them.
But then the 10 hour day is again what we end up with.
And people will sometimes accept the 10 hour day for awhile and then it
wears them down.
Also this proposal is about less hours as well as less days of travel to and
from work.

In my opinion a few things will have to change before this can be taken
seriously.
The price of gas will have to increase to $5.00 gallon or maybe even more as
initially it will just be more car pooling and alternatives such as scooters
and bikes as gas price goes up. It won't in itself change the work hours.

And our collective perspective on climate change will also have to change.
People will readily accept the reality of a refined fuel shortage but not
the reality of climate change or even the broader oil issue ...peak oil and
it's direct effects.

We might say: oh my, another severe hurricane, another drought, another
boiling summer or severe winter. Or, yes the glaciers are reported to be
melting. oops it seems they are now gone!
But those are still weather reports unless our own roof blows off and then
we become a believer.
We are not their yet by a long way. And the government aswell as the
American media do not intend to warn us as they have no answers to propose.

As to employers this can be a plus for them in some ways and which have
described many times. But generally the longer they have us at the job site
for the least amount of cost the better they like it.
We are selling our labor and the employer is not our friends as well.