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The Case Against a 4-Day Workweek

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🗓️ 20 March 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Would a 4-day workweek work? In this episode, Patrick Bet-David reveals the consequences of a 4-day workweek and why you should think critically before buying into it. FaceTime or Ask Patrick any questions on https://minnect.com/ Recommended video: How to Reach Your Potential as an Entrepreneur: https://youtu.be/3XJ69wwU-Hs Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/2aPEwD4 To reach the Valuetainment team, you can email: info@valuetainment.com

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0:00.0

For their work week, good idea, bad idea. I asked this on Twitter, 25,000 people voted for.

0:04.8

Do they care about it? Is it a bad idea? Is it a good idea? The results will probably surprise you.

0:18.9

So I got to tell you, I was surprised because my audience is generally entrepreneur,

0:22.2

COC suite. Most of these guys are in business. A lot of them are more than the average person.

0:26.3

I thought the numbers were going to be fully a horrible idea, but this is what happened.

0:30.0

2020.5% said they don't care. 23% said bad idea. 54.6% said it is a good idea.

0:38.1

I don't know about you, but I'm blown away by the results. Four day work week.

0:40.8

What do you want to do with the three days? Is it good for you? Is it even healthy for you to have

0:44.0

more time on your hands? When we have more free time, do we live longer? Are we more fulfilled?

0:47.3

Is it worse for us? You'd be amazed by the results by the way. We got a lot of different data.

0:50.8

I want to see if any other country did the four day work week. Did they get good results?

0:53.9

When we did that, we found out which country in the world works the least amount of hours a week.

0:57.2

By the way, it's 29 hours. I'll tell you here in a minute who it is.

0:59.9

And then maybe at some industries, I'll give you my argument. You make a decision for yourself.

1:03.9

Having said that, let's get right into it. So before we go into some of these countries that

1:07.0

are testing for their work week, let's define success. What is success here? Is it success just

1:11.2

having more time? Well, then countries that do that and are given to people more time,

1:15.1

that's called successful to you. But it's success more countries that are doing a model that

1:20.1

produces more companies that generate jobs that create better innovation. If that success

1:25.5

with a lot of these countries that are doing a four day work week, you get an F in it.

1:28.4

First, I believe we have to define what successes and then we'll look at the data.

1:31.8

So now when I give you some of these countries, I'm also going to give you what companies

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