Here’s a controversial idea: a four day working week. It would work one day on, one day off. So every other day is a day off, meaning we have 3 days off a week instead of 2.

There’s lots of pros and cons to such an idea. People would argue that we only really have around 260 theoretical working days a year (excluding public holidays) and this would reduce that to around 208 working days.

Is that so bad?

One argument is that people might work harder and be more productive if they have more days of rest. On the flipside of that argument is that people will slack more, because they will be thinking and preparing for their day off.

Personally I think it’s a great idea, not because I’m lazy, but because I think that a person’s productivity goes down on every successive day of the week. By Friday, productivity is at an all-week low.

Tomorrow I’ll be posting a variation on this idea.