Last weekend morning, the editor at WorldWay Immigration suddenly came across a post on Weibo: The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences released a report suggesting that China should implement a 4-day work week starting in 2030!
Once the news broke, it immediately sparked heated discussion and quickly trended on Weibo!
If a 4-day, 36-hour work week were implemented—meaning 9 hours of work per day—would you be willing or unwilling?
In fact, a 4-day work week is no longer news. In the United States, people proposed and implemented a 4-day work week as early as the 1970s. Initially, the 4-day work week was forced upon the city of Birmingham, USA, due to the skyrocketing price of gasoline.
Similarly, many Japanese companies began implementing a 4-day work week many years ago. For example, after KFC Japan began implementing a 4-day work week in 2016, the international convenience store chain FamilyMart also announced it would join this movement.
Setting aside the talk of a 4-day work week, I searched for some data analysis. According to a survey report, the average American worker has 15 days of annual leave. Excluding weekends, the number of working days in a year is approximately 240. Based on the current 8-hour workday in the U.S., the annual working time is about 1,920 hours, averaging 37 hours per week.
Currently, most regions in France generally implement a seven-hour workday. In addition to the two-day weekend, there are 11 statutory holidays and five weeks of annual leave. Counting the French-invented method of combining holidays, there are over 150 days of vacation each year. Excluding these 150 days, there are about 215 working days. Calculated based on a seven-hour workday, the average annual working time in France is about 1,505 hours, averaging 29 hours per week.
After looking at the 4-day work week, many people who work overtime must surely feel envious, right? But in fact, some countries already have working hours that are even lower than those in Japan, such as Sweden, Iceland, and Luxembourg in Northern Europe, where they generally have a 7-hour workday system. For example, the Swedish people have an average of 6 to 8 weeks of statutory leave per year, which means the average annual working time is about 1,420 hours, averaging 27 hours per week.
Reports indicate that in China, excluding work and sleep, individuals have approximately 2.27 hours of leisure time per day. In developed countries in Europe and America, the average daily leisure time for citizens is about 5 hours.
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