What workweek rhythm would you prefer?

[Kotze]

Imagine a planned economy introducing a new standard "week" containing as many working days as free days for you, the proposals:

6-day sequence: 1 day work, 1 day off, 2 days work, 2 days off, repeat.
8-day sequence: 2 days work, 1 day off, 2 days work, 3 days off, repeat.
12-day sequence: 2 days work, 2 days off, 4 days work, 4 days off, repeat.
16-day sequence: 4 days work, 2 days off, 4 days work, 6 days off, repeat.

With such a sequence it's possible to have people in groups that differ in when the sequence starts/ends, so capacity load of factories and transportation is balanced over the days, and still everybody shares free days with everyone else, like this (each column shows a day, each horizontal line a group, x = work, o = no work):

6-day sequence: 6 groups, you are guaranteed to share at least 1 free day within 6 days with any other working person. When a person is randomly drawn from the working population, the chance that person has at least 2 free days in common with you is 1/3.


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8-day sequence: 4 groups, you are guaranteed to share at least 1 free day within 8 days with any other working person. When a person is randomly drawn from the working population, the chance that person has at least 2 free days in common with you is 1/2.


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12-day sequence: 6 groups, you are guaranteed to share at least 2 free consecutive days within 12 days with any other working person. When a person is randomly drawn from the working population, the chance that person has at least 4 free days in common with you, in no more than 2 segments, is 1/3.


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16-day sequence: 4 groups, you are guaranteed to share at least 2 free consecutive days within 16 days with any other working person. When a working person is randomly drawn from the population, the chance that person has at least 4 free days in common with you, in no more than 2 segments, is 1/2.


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[TheGodlessUtopian]

I like the eight day sequence best as it just seems to fit me more. :cool:

[Brosa Luxemburg]

I like the eight day sequence best as it just seems to fit me more. :cool:

Yeah, that's what I voted.

[Proukunin]

Idk, I think I could handle the 12 day sequence, I voted for it.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

I also think it would depend on what working conditions were like at the work place.

[Proukunin]

Yes of course..And how long the work days were also. 8hr, 10hr, 12hr days?

[hatzel]

I'm not going to lie to you I'd flatly reject all these options...


Yes of course..And how long the work days were also. 8hr, 10hr, 12hr days?

I'd do the same to these options. Why the hell would anybody choose to be forced to work for anything like that long? :blink:

[l'Enfermé]

Communism is a week-less society! Private property and weeks must be abolished.

[danyboy27]

Well, if you consider a certain degree of unpleasant work could be necessary to run society, i take the 6 day workweek.

It would free my time for doing the shit i really want to do and decrease my degree of stress.

I always work best in short burst of work.

[WanderingCactus]

None of the above. Fuck the workweek.

[danyboy27]

None of the above. Fuck the workweek.

Even in a egalitarian society where most of the dirty work would automated, there would still be a need for people to perform certain unpleasant task to keep society running.

with an alternate work schedule system people would do a minimal number of dirty work and use their free time to do what they like for the good of society.

I personally wouldnt mind cleaning bathroom a fews hours a week if it mean i can use the rest of the time to do whatever i want, sound like a sound deal.

Obviously capitalism cant deliver such thing.

[Veovis]

If I had to pick, I'd have off Saturday, Sunday, and Wednesday so I never work more than two days in a row.

[Ocean Seal]

Why not just let the workers in each Soviet choose their working times and coordinate it with a central organ so that production is efficient and we all get as many days off as possible.