It'll make you very productive

It'll make you very productive

Work four days a week 10 hours a working day and take off a mid-week holiday on Wednesday.

I have a different take on this all together. In recent times we did have a day off on Wednesday, the last I remember was Gandhi Jayanti Oct. 2, 2013. We always have a lot of work on a daily basis, however, I felt the week with a Wednesday off in the middle went past quickly and I also noticed that it was one of the most productive weeks for a very long time. I experimented with deciding to say back at home yet another Wednesday, which I again found was not only refreshing, but the week was productive once again.

We work more than the scheduled 8 hours a day easily say about 10 hours daily and add to this the travel time of a minimum of two hours (one hour up and one hour down), effectively making it twelve hours to work. Add to this one hour preparation in the morning to get to work and about the same time to unwind after returning back in the evening. So this makes it 14 hours. This leaves us with about 10 hours of which about 7 accounts for the night sleep, leaving us with just three hours with the family, Children, Society, community, TV, Friends, Calls etc. And we seem to wait for the weekend by postponing all activities. When we get to the weekend, most times we are summoned back for some urgent deliverable or if there isn't anything, there is hardly any energy left for anything so we try catching up with the family and relax at home, which again doesn't happen. Groceries, Social outing's, temple visit then to a movie. followed to a dinner at a restaurant, fills the weekend, and back again the grind starts all over again beginning Monday.

I'm being given to understand many of our counterparts from the other side of the globe are pretty precise with their check-in (perhaps 8.00 AM or 8.30 AM) and check-out (@5.00 PM or 5.30 PM) with their lunch packed in between, which I am told they wrap up pretty quickly and are at the desk to resume work. They will never invest their weekends for anything other than family.

So what we are driving ourselves crazy for.

This brings me back to the same point a mid-week off on Wednesday, and the usual 10 hours accounted for work instead of 8, and so in effect for Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday anyway we clock 40 hours. There should be no billing hitch. I am quite convinced this will work. It will need some gut for the managements to adopt this proposal first and then communicate to their clients. If the workforce in the country decides that this will be the way it shall go, I am sure there will be no one who would want to challenge a nation such as ours that boasts of high quality young talent. We need to take a firm resolve and say that's it. We shall work 10 hours for four days in a week and take a day off in the middle of the week on Wednesday.

I have been circulating this message through a few blogs now and this has been received with great interest and is gaining support as well. This could quite become a reality before too long.