#Four day work week

Assuming 20 working days in a month, the average working day in the United States and Germany went down from around 9 hours to nearly 6 hours. As of 2019, the Philippine Statistics Authority found that, as of 2019, Filipinos worked 43 hours a week on average, amounting to over 2,246 hours for the entire year. This is way above the prescribed 8-hour work day in the Labor Code of the Philippines, and greater than any of the nations ranked by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). [caption id="attachment_303429" align="alignnone" width="720"] A 1923 campaign ad for the 4-hour workday[/caption] This brings forth the question at hand: What working scheme would suit best the 21st century laborer? To begin, there seems to be no one standard for the 4-day work week. Spain, arguably one of the first European nations to formally adopt the 8-hour work day, announced a pilot program to implement a 32-hour work week. This means while the week will be compressed to four days, the working hours mandated per day would still be 8 hours. In exchange for shortening the work week, the work day would be extended to 10 hours - basically an addition of 2 hours. Read more in our articles including "4-day work week, Hybrid Work, Work-from-Home, 4-hour work day: Which one works for you?" and "Cyber Black Friday deals, anyone?".