There is a movement afoot, originating in the UK, to move businesses to a 4 day working week
Over the years, when employed, I worked all sorts of "different" work schedules including 4 x 10hr shifts, 4 on 4 off schedules plus six day weeks and one where you were assigned 7x12 hours and used a pool of irregulars to organise time off when you wanted it.
All had their good and bad points but I found when running my own business (approx 20 years over two businesses) I stuck to 6 day weeks unless I had something to do.
The one thing I did find was that, whether having 3 or 4 days off, life became far more expensive.
Any benefit of the extra time off was quickly overcome by this larger expense to the point that when forced to have 4 days off each 8 days I took to assisting with a logging crew (swinging a chainsaw up trees) and running a friend's farm while he led a goat-shearing gang.
These jobs were taken not just for the money (or in the case of the farm, free meat) but also to prevent me from getting bored and spending money - there is only so much maintenance needed around the average house and section before you start projects you neither want nor need.
Overall having an extra day off was a negative rather than a positive experience.
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