4% of People Say Their Ideal Workweek Is: One Shift, 40 Hours Straight?

We’ve all heard coworkers say they “just want to get the workweek over ASAP.”  But they probably didn’t mean all at once . . . right?

A new poll asked people what their ideal workweek would be.

26% said the typical set-up:  Five 8-hour workdays.

40% said they’d like an extra day off, so:  Four 10-hour days.

15% said they’d like two extra days off, and could do:  Three 13-hour days.

13% said they’d like SHORTER shifts, so:  Six 6-hour days.  (That’s not 40 hours.  It might have to be six 6-hour, 40-minute workdays.)

There were a few people who wanted to go more extreme:

2% of people said they’d prefer to do two 20-hour workdays.  And another 4% would want to do just ONE shift . . . working 40 hours straight.  (???)

Maybe these people were joking around.  Normal jobs, like a line cook, a barber, or a dental hygienist couldn’t realistically pull this off.  You’d have to have a job where you already have a LOT of downtime.