How about a 4-day work week… anyone?

pwede…transpo and meal expense for four days..tipid isang araw…

but how can they regulate the flow of people?..how sure are they na hindi ito lalabas nang bahay?

pag-aralan pa siguro…but it’s not entirely bad..

4 working days? I don’t think so…
To me, the plain contributor to the problem is the increasing number of private vehicles. The economical solution would be to promote public transportation.

Well,

How about the productivity of the workers? Longer hours may mean tired employees, equals unhappy employers of course.

IF 4 days lang pasok sa work, cgro it also means na on the 5th day of the week close din work place nila? Most probably IMO.

Also which employees will have to go through with this?

How about teachers? 4 days a week na lang din classes? That means 4 days din pasok ng mga kids.

How about Banks? Gov’t agencies? etc. Medyo hassle din cgro kung less than a day in a week lang bukas mga establishments?

I wonder how to properly implement this?

This has been brought up countless times before….during the electricity issue. Business owners have frowned on this idea. There is only a limit on a himan’s productivity. Beyond that even if you extend the working hours, attention span is limited. Mistakes and carelessness will start to implement themselves. At the end of the exercise, it would probably be more efficient to have longer working days with shorter working hours than shorter working days with longer working hours.

The answer is very simple: Urban Planning! Wala kasi ka-plano plano para sa Metro Manila. Puro scotch tape solutions. There should be at least ONE efficient public transport system for the whole Metro Manila – from light rail system down to tricycle transport. Ang gulo kasi ng sistema na kapag sa QC ganito, pero pagtawid mo ng Pasig iba na, tapos iba rin ang Makati tapos iba din sa Manila. Labo-labo lang!

As I mentioned on my previous comment on the other article. Volume is not the problem but the inefficient transport system and DISCIPLINE. I already mentioned if we only have efficient transport system like Singapore this wont be a problem. Regarding on the 4 day work this wont work either. Tokyo is one of the most populated cities in the world. Same thing with Singapore thet have an efficient public transport. What is the solution – IMPROVE PUBLIC TRANSPORT system.

It’s always been the buses and jeeps. Always.

This may actually work or even do benefit, but more on the travel experience. Since number of cars / PUVs are fixed anyway.

What they can explore as well is inclusion of Saturday as part of workday, especially for govt service office. This will even add value since weekday employees won’t have to skip work just to fulfill their routine needs like drivers license, NBI, etc.

Another is setting office hours in tranches. Not everyone has to be 8-5. Some can be 7-4, 6-3, or as late as 10-7 or 11-8. Just so rush hour traffic gets spread out much wider.

This will work best for plain-operational-duration-specific jobs, which mostly are commuters. But for a corporate employee like me, this won’t work. I usually work beyond office hours anyway, removing a day will just be a business detriment.

It could work on isolationist countries like North Korea pero ang industry natin operates on a global level on all sectors. Do you expect other countries to adapt to our schedule?

I believe french workers clamored for this work schedule as well.

No and never. Our body was built for 8-hours work only (not counting 1-hour lunch break).

Many countries in the past already experimented with changing the work hours of their citizens (compressing it and/or extending it), they ended up reverting to 8-hour 5 to 6 days only a week.

In some countries today, there are movements showing corporations that the productivity of their employees suffer (not to mention their long-term health which we will no longer recover) than those who stay within 8-hour 5-6 days only a week work format.

Anyway, there are many studies made about this matter already, 8-hour per day, no less than 5 days and no more than 6 days per week, always came up as the optimal, healthy, and highly productive system.

So no. Health is a priority. Productivity is a must.

Working here in South Korea.. I like how organized their transportation system is.. Pati kapag lumabag ka sa traffic rules, pagmumultahin ka.. Siguro kailangan lang din talaga natin ng disiplina..

Yep! I totally agree. I think discipline is the key. Yun A, B and C na bus scheme nga di nila ma-implement ng maayos. Ningas Kugon din kasi ang government, sa una lang palage tpos pagtagal isang tango lang ng bus driver pwede ng magsakay at magbaba kahit bawal.. tsk tsk

Make the public transport system truly public instead of franchising it.

Imagine it, if PUVs followed one centralized schedule, traffic would be better. Wala nang unahan for passengers, excessive boundaries/quotas that lead to poor driving decisions, and we could professionalize public transport driving. Without the pressure of hitting boundaries, drivers would follow the rules better and would become government employees with better benefits. With larger resources, we could have a better, safer, and 24/7 public transport system.

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