Three-day Weekends Help To Boost Health And Productivity

The August Bank Holiday brings the British a three-day weekend. But how much time does the public devote to work anyway, asks dailymail.

For some advocates of the work ethic, the belief is that what is important is the "perpetuation of work, not with its reduction."

It is well known that work makes us "healthier and happier".

The pro-work ideology helps to make welfare reforms seeking to bring non-employed people into work.

Working for long hours have shown to make people prone to risks of strokes, coronary heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

Too much work also makes people lose touch with their families and alternative leisure activities. Hence, it is important to challenge the work ethic and live less work-centred lives.

With more technology, both productivity and creativity have increased.

Yet, technology has actually increased our work, making us remain on the beck and call of our workplaces for seven days a week, according to bustle.

Less work might improve health and happiness, but due to increased consumerism, people tend to want to earn more. Yet "the weakened power of labour relative to capital has created an environment that has suited the extension of work time."

Even as less working hours will help employees to work for a four-day week, the idea is that the labour will gain from the better work-life balance, even as the firm faces less expenses.

Hence, even as less work is more beneficial, a lot of unproductive and wasteful work is generated in order to create work by the elite classes.

However, "Only a reduction in the working week to 30 hours or less can be seen as genuine progress in the achievement of shorter work time," Professor Spencer argues.

Even as a company called Uniqlo is introducing a four-day working week, workers will need to work ten-hour shifts. So 40 hours will get squeezed into their four-day week.

This itself would be a setback to the productivity of the company, feel many.

Hence, it is not just reducing the number of weekends, but also the number of hours per week that would help to boost economic, social and psychological payoffs.