As a four-day working week returns to topics around the country, we found out what people in Newark think of the idea and how beneficial it can be.
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00:00I think I don't think that's a bad thing because I'm not in the normal nine-to-five
00:12kind of job so I do 12-hour shifts and I work five shifts one week so and I think
00:17it's better because you obviously if you work in a weekend you actually get to
00:20get to your appointments we're actually taking time off from work so yeah I
00:24think it would be beneficial all around yeah definitely. Yeah I mean I would go
00:28for it it would benefit me a lot because it means you get a day in the
00:32week to do things like go to the post office go to the bank and things like
00:35that before they shut so I would do it and just kind of compress the workday
00:38but it may not work for everyone but yeah. I think it'd be beneficial but I
00:42think you probably need to have worked somewhere so that somebody already knows
00:46what your capacity is and what it is that you can do from home because not
00:50every job enables you to work from home there are some jobs where you can't so I
00:55think you need to be in a job where it's obvious that say on a Friday or
00:59whatever day of the week you wanted to work from home the work that you were
01:03doing was appropriate to be working from home and that somebody's already worked
01:07out your honesty and your flexibility. Yeah I think so yeah I think when you've
01:15got jobs where you've got to go out like plumbers it's a little harder for them
01:19to sort of take on that sort of role but yeah I agree with my wife it all
01:26depends on your experience at work and where you are I think. I think it's
01:31beneficial I don't think it's a very good work-life balance I think just a
01:36two-day weekend is a good idea ten hours a day I don't think that's gonna benefit
01:41anybody really. Depends I feel like if you have a family and you need child
01:45care then it's probably not very beneficial overall because then you're
01:50even though will you be paying for the child care regardless but I think you
01:54know if you're single and can operate by yourself then I feel like having an extra day
01:58off would probably be better for you so I guess it just depends on what your
02:02situation is. I think I would rather do five days I don't know if I'd like to do
02:08ten hour shift and I guess it depends on breaks and like all the sort of nuances
02:13but I think I'd rather be five days and just have two days off. I don't like the
02:16idea I think if you can do five days work in four days do five days in five
02:20days or six days in five days