The 4-day working week

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By Dwain Duxson

The 4-day working week -- I read an article about the 4-day working week, and the first group I thought about was Farmers. Imagine running a Farm where you clocked on at 9, and off at 5, and your weekend started on Friday. What would you get done?

Now we do bang on about how Farmers work too hard, and we are deadly serious about that. Everyone says it, and it's almost a bland statement, but we all can work "smarter". 

It's a human nature thing for Farmers to work hard, stay busy, and focus on the things that need to be done. But sometimes, keeping up these sorts of appearances to ourselves and others can be to our detriment. We have to be careful how we structure "work".

Getting back to the 4-day week. I remember as a kid, locally, they had this collaborative Farming group called "The Syndicate", where a group of Farmers pooled their Land and ran the business together. One of the policies was to work office hours only, and 9 to 5 doesn't suit a Farm. "The Syndicate" was dissolved after however many years, and the Farmer's took the Land back, and someone said the workings hours policy was something that stopped it from being successful. 

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