The Four Day Work Week – is it time?

I’ve been re-thinking the possibilities of a four day work week – the benefits being less stress, less time in peak hour traffic, more time with friends and family and more time for personal creative projects.  All it takes is learning to live on 80% of our current earnings. So, as a starting gesture I’m taking a month off purchasing any new stuff (food excluded) in November to see how hard it is.

Then it will be Christmas.  My new favourite Christmas gift is loans to Kive.org on behalf of family and friends, so I won’t have to buy any new stuff for gifts.  And I can attend the North Sydney Womens Clothes and Accessories Swap so I don’t have to purchase any new clothes for Christmas parties!

Today an email popped into my inbox from Co-Exist with the heading “The 30 Hour Workweek is here (if you want it)!  Hooray, someone else is thinking the same and done some heavy duty thinking.  I can’t wait to read the new book Time on our Side from the New Economic Forum (so I will make one exception to my no new stuff – although because it is an e-book I could sneakily argue it isn’t “stuff” – it’s food for my brain and my imagination.

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