Hello beautiful humans and welcome back to our 30th episode! In today's episode Brooke and Kelsey are PISSED about the outdated and bureaucratic hellhole that shapes the typical American work culture: The 9-5. (which is actually 8-5 for most, and not even to mention a commute to and from work). We can't comprehend that we are brainwashed and forced into thinking that working out assess off to live pay check to pay check for a majority of our waking lives and youth is how we're supposed to spend our precious short time on this earth. IT'S BULLSHIT!! Close your eyes, and picture what an average day would look like for you if money wasn't an issue. Does it look vastly different than what you're doing now?
We should be able to have more control over our schedules, lives, and finances. We discuss how recently people are starting to change the narrative and challenging the traditional 9-5 works schedule, which makes it nearly impossible to have any semblance of a work/life balance. You may have heard about the study done in the UK from June 2022 to December 2022, where 2,900 workers at 61 major companies tested out a 4 day (32 hour) work week. Shockingly (more like, obviously) the businesses and employees reported mostly positive results. Productivity was the same or better in areas compared to previous years, employees reported vastly higher life satisfaction levels, heightened productivity at work, improved mental health, decreased stress and fatigue, better sleep... you get the picture. 56 of the companies that partook in the study have decided to make the 4-day work week permanent., and are urging others to consider.
We hope to keep pushing this narrative forward as the younger generations work their way up higher in the work place, to allow for people to have some control in their lives, work, and schedules that don't make them feel like zombies stuck in a never ending monotonous loop (insert scene of Incredibles when Mr. Incredible is slowly losing his shit doing the same thing every day in his cubicle). We hope this episode didn't bum you out as much as it did us.
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/21/1158507132/uk-study-companies-four-day-workweek
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