NationStates Jolt Archive


n-days a week?

Sileetris
28-12-2005, 03:46
So I'm reading various utopian and futurist sites and I come across an interesting idea... Changing the number of days in a week.

Apparantly the Soviets tried 5 and 6 day weeks for a while, although they only got one day off so I don't think we'd want those.

Here are articles advocating 8 and 9 day weeks.....
http://www.wfs.org/hager.htm
http://www.wfs.org/howe.htm

I'd also say it might be possible to have a 6 day week with 4 work days, and 2 rest days. (And I guess you could split it among 3 work groups) This might lower productivity, but I think we are already too productive for our own good...

So what do you think? Would you change the number of days in a week?
PasturePastry
28-12-2005, 04:13
I'm liking the nine day week idea: 6 on, 3 off. Would make scheduling easier. I don't know if you've had to make out work schedules for a place that runs 24/7, but it's pretty tough to get it where you have even coverage for all days and still have everyone have two contiguous days off.
The Plutonian Empire
28-12-2005, 04:18
I chose 8 days simply 'cuz 8 is my fave number. :D

But 9 days sounds nice. :)
Stone Bridges
28-12-2005, 04:29
I'm too used to the 7 day system to change now!
Kryozerkia
28-12-2005, 05:22
Whatever. Wake me up when the apocalypse destroys the world.
Zwange
28-12-2005, 05:30
I'll stick with seven.

Whatever. Wake me up when the apocalypse destroys the world.
*Steals your wallet while you're napping*
The Artful Dodgers
28-12-2005, 05:43
Wonderful! An extra day or two to do absolutely nothing.

I don't see how extending the week would really change anything for the better. We'd have to adjust to a new calendar, upgrade our computer clocks, likely work an extra day. Seven days a week doesn't seem too bad a deal to me, so I don't see much of a reason to change anything.

If they do change the week, perhaps we could move onto a new era while we're at it. That'd be pretty cool. :D
Megaloria
28-12-2005, 05:52
Metric time, baby! Ten-day weeks!
Daekerius
28-12-2005, 06:55
4 working
3 off

call me lazy, but americans are too much of workaholics, something needs to make up for the lack of vacation. >_<;
Naturality
28-12-2005, 07:27
I prefer 3 (12 hour) consecutive days on, 4 off. Last good job I had was set up that way. Worked Friday through Sunday had the rest of the week off, it rocked.
Safalra
28-12-2005, 12:26
So what do you think? Would you change the number of days in a week?
I don't see the point of forcing ourselves into some arbitrarily imposed artificial rhythm. Therefore I think the concept of a 'week' is pointless.
Fass
28-12-2005, 13:24
No, it's seven because the Babylonians made it so.
Wildwolfden
28-12-2005, 13:26
No, and I have a more legitimate reason... being thats how the math boffins worked it out
Damor
28-12-2005, 13:36
I shudder at the thought what people would call the extra days. So I'll stick with the seven we have.
Super-power
28-12-2005, 13:43
Personally I would like to switch to Metric Time (http://zapatopi.net/metrictime/), but adjusting to the switch would be too difficult.
Kyleslavia
28-12-2005, 14:00
I like the seven day week, although the six week would be nice, one less work day.
Heavenly Sex
28-12-2005, 14:49
Works need to be 10 days! :D
Pretty much everything is based on the metric system nowaydays (except for a few looneys still using inch and such :rolleyes: )

The week should be arranged like this: (W=Work, F=Free):

W W W F W W W W F F

In a 7-day week we would have 260 potential work days, and with this 10-days week, we would have 256 potential work days, only insignificantly less, so no loss of productivity! :D
However, people wouldn't have to work that much in one go, and thus would have less stress and work more productively, which would even increase productivity! :D

We would the have 12 months with exactly 30 days each in which fit 3 weeks each, and for the time between Xmas and New Year we would have an additional 5-day (half-week) month. This one could then also be extended to 6 days for leap years.
German Nightmare
28-12-2005, 15:21
Seven is just fine. As if anyone would do more or less with another day of the week. That would just reduce the number of weeks a year - and how much good would that do? Nada.

Even the Beatles said that eight days a week ain't enough, right? So why bother.

How about 1 day a week. We could have 365.25 weeks a year... http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/irre.gif
German Nightmare
28-12-2005, 15:23
Works need to be 10 days! :D
Pretty much everything is based on the metric system nowaydays (except for a few looneys still using inch and such :rolleyes: )

The week should be arranged like this: (W=Work, F=Free):

W W W F W W W W F F

In a 7-day week we would have 260 potential work days, and with this 10-days week, we would have 256 potential work days, only insignificantly less, so no loss of productivity! :D
However, people wouldn't have to work that much in one go, and thus would have less stress and work more productively, which would even increase productivity! :D

We would the have 12 months with exactly 30 days each in which fit 3 weeks each, and for the time between Xmas and New Year we would have an additional 5-day (half-week) month. This one could then also be extended to 6 days for leap years.

Come to think of it - I would cast my vote for the Heavenly Sex Calendar!