🍺 PUB TEST: How Do You Feel About A 4-Day Work Week?

Does a 4-day work week pass the pub test?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation done the Jonesy the matter of
arms for the PUB test.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
The four day work week?

Speaker 3 (00:06):
Does it pass the PUB test?

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Sounds fanciful, but the Australian Council of Trade Unions the ACTU,
is advocating for exactly this. Employers would work eighty percent
of their hours but maintain one hundred percent of their
salary provided they can sustain their productivity levels. So this
is where the dance comes in. You do four days
a week because Australia needs more productivity, but we don't

(00:29):
want that, they are saying, and they're right at the
expense of burnout, of stress, of no human connection, of
no time for family. So that's what this is looking at.
So they've done a study that has found that, and
it went for a couple of years, a four day
work week, full pay, it did increase productivity and the
majority ninety five percent of the companies involved said they

(00:51):
wanted to keep going with it after the trial finished.
How do you feel the four day work week? Does
it pass the PUB test?

Speaker 2 (00:56):
It?

Speaker 3 (00:57):
Personally does you find people will be more productive because
they've got that motivation of a three day weekend.

Speaker 4 (01:03):
Well, how does the rest of the world workers some
of us, says, I think the Prime Minister set yesterday.
Some of us would just like to work a five
day week. The business is going to be open for
five days a week still, or are they going to
be shut for that extra day which means that other
businesses can't work with them.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
No, I don't believe it past the pub test. It's
going to produce productivity, but is it going to actually
increase the economy. I believe that it's actually going to
pull the economy back.

Speaker 5 (01:30):
No, it doesn't pass the pop test because, unfortunately, there
are jobs out there that it has to be five
days a week. As a teacher, I'm working five days
a week.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
You're older, definitely, yes, a four day work week. You
know you need to spend some more time looking after yourself.
Nowadays you can't retire to your nearly dead, so having
four days is great. But when you're younger, I think
you can do five days hard map. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:55):
I remember I used to work six days a week,
and I used to God, it'd be great to work
five days a week.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
Old days.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
I don't think that everyone would take that same one
day off. I know one of those callers was saying
the business, businesses close. I think it's a you know,
shifting thing. Not everyone's off on the same day.