Early & 4 Day Work Week

What are you early for? Dangerous Dave talks about a poll that says job interviews top the list followed by concerts. Plus, after a long weekend, is this a test we could make a 4 day work week a reality?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is deeper in the den with dangerous date. Well,
if you're running early today, great If you didn't make
this list. A new poll looked at events were most
likely to be early four Going to show up a
little early Number one is not your job, it's your
next one. Number one job interview. Eighty seven percent of
people said they would get there a little early. Concerts

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eighty percent. It ranked first on arriving very early run.
A third of us like to get there with plenty
of time to spare now. You don't want to be
stuck in a traffic jammer in the parking lot when
the concert starts. Sporting events seventy six percent. Some of
those people probably tailgating movies at seventy six percent. They
said they like to be a little early for that
one so they can catch the previews. Weddings at seventy

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one percent. You don't want to be walking in when
the bride is sixty one percent. Also said they arrive
early at church fifty seven percent. For date, video calls
at fifty seven percent, and fifty five percent like getting
to restaurants a little early. The one thing we don't
like to be early for parties. A third of us
would get their early. Thirty four percent said right on time,
in thirty one percent say fashionably late. So for me,

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I kind of like to be early for everything. As
a matter of fact, if I'm not at least ten
minutes early, I consider myself late. Deeper in the two. Well,
for a lot of people, the three day weekend is over,
but good news is there's a shorter four day work
week ahead of us. Many people think the shorter work
weeks or a lighter workload. But what if we could
use it as a test to show that the four

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day work week could be just as productive every week.
In a new survey, sixty nine percent of people believed
they could do their job in thirty two hours per week.
Only twenty nine percent did not think it was possible,
and three percent weren't sure. Millennials most likely to think
they could make it work at seventy five percent, followed
by gen Z and gen X. Baby boomers far less convinced.

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Only forty eight percent of working boomers think of four
day work week would work if it did happen. What
day would you like off? In the survey, Overwhelmingly they
preferred Friday at fifty five percent over Monday at twenty
four percent. I disagree. I would say Monday Mondays are
already Monday, okay, So if you get Monday off, I
already start getting anxiety having to go back to work

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on Sunday. Sundays would be much more relaxing knowing I
had Monday off, so and then Monday would just be
a little bit more palatable anyway. So why are boomers
into it? Well, maybe they built their careers on traditional schedules.
Maybe because they know if they have the day off,
they'll probably end up babysitting the grandkids there. Maybe they're
most realistic knowing that there's been a ton of talk
on four day work weeks over the years and it

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has not happened, But we end up working harder and longer.
Yep to it again for another episode of Deeper in
the Den with Dangerous Dave light Year.