21 Hours
Imagine this! A 21-hour work week as standard.
A ‘normal’ working week of 21 hours could help to address a range of urgent, interlinked problems: overwork, unemployment, over-consumption, high carbon emissions, low well-being, entrenched inequalities, and the lack of time to live sustainably, to care for each other, and simply to enjoy life.
It’s still too many hours for my bone-idle liking, but it would certainly be a step in the right direction for the overworked Parkinson’s Law-afflicted cube farm world.
About Robert Wringham
Robert Wringham is the editor of New Escapologist. He also writes books and articles. Read more at wringham.co.uk
It’s true, 21 hours is the perfect limit on a workweek if you ‘have’ to work. I worked 20.75 hours a week for the past year and a half, and I found it to be just the threshold before bitterness and resentment kick in. Enough to milk what you can out of a place, without it getting to you!
And oh, how the full-time employees of the office are jealous, when they see you being just as productive as they are in 3/5 of the time.
So true! I remember my days part-time working and it drove the permanent residents crazy.