How Does a 9/80 Work Schedule Work Out?

cellocgw writes "My company is in the process of implementing a version of '9/80,' a work schedule that squeezes 80 hours' labor time into 9 business days and provides every other Friday off. I was wondering how this has been implemented in other companies, and how it's worked out for other Slashdot readers. Is your system flexible? Do you find time to get personal stuff done during the week? Is Friday good for anything other than catching up on lost sleep? And perhaps most important, do your managers respect the off-Fridays, or do they pull people in on a regular basis to handle 'crises?'"

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Re:feh

[Anonymous Coward]

If you don't know what Cmd-Shift-1 and Cmd-Shift-2 are for, GTFO.
If you think Firefox is a decent Mac application, GTFO.
If you're still looking for the "maximize" button, GTFO.
If the name "Clarus" means nothing to you, GTFO.

Bandwagon jumpers are not welcome among real Mac users. Keep your filthy PC fingers to yourself.

That's nothing

[Un pobre guey]

You people are wimps. At my employer, we have decreed that work weeks consist of four consecutive 42 hour days (that's 24, backwards). The days are now named Plem, Spweep, Nawngk, and Joel. We get every second Joel and every fourth Plem off, and have 12 hours off per day to go home or whatever. The company provides diapers and all necessary medications. Productivity has risen 5% over the last Phlenkature.

Beat that, you lazy bastards!.

Re:I'd rather have 4/36

[Directrix1]

There are many "tipping points" called tax brackets. If it can knock you down into a lower tax bracket you can come out ahead.

Re:Get out now

[Anonymous Coward]

Well we are on an economic depression, and there are plenty of Brown-Abu-like people around.
They always do their pathetic cheap half-ass work, and they work 90 hours a day, as they spent like 89 hours googling for ways to do their jobs, because they can't understand anything that is not in Sanskrit...
So, as a White American IT worker, I totally support Pakistan if they Nuke India oblivious. Just go back to my 40 hours week work schedule, just have good, high quality code again, just don't have those Brown dudes asking me questions on a language that resembles English, that would be some paradise on Earth...

Re:Sound better then 5/80

[arth1]

In many countries, 37.5 hours per week is standard, and anything over that has to be paid overtime for, even if you're salaried. These countries largely overlap with the countries that have higher productivity per worker than the US.

Re:I'd rather have 4/36

[mog007]

My father works 16 hours a day, 6 days a week. And he's been doing it for the past year at his new job. But there's no other jobs available in his field, so he can't quit and get a job that pays him more than the 2 bucks an hour he's earning.

Re:I'd rather have 4/36

[Anonymous Coward]

let me guess construction? And has he tried standing outside of Home Depot, I hear you can make some descent cash money doing it that way.

Re:I'd rather have 4/36

[PrinceAshitaka]

I hate to say it but the onyl way that america remains competative in the world market is to overwork their employees. America is niether skilled nor efficient enough to work fewer hours.