A growing number of voices are pushing for the U.S. to embrace a four-day work week, leading critics to question the wisdom of what would be a cultural sea change.
"Companies need to produce the same level of work, so they may need to hire and train more people. Would the tax breaks offered be enough to cover these extra expenses? This could cause businesses to really sweat."
It's funny how the criticism is basically "But this will create more jobs!"
I also can't help but notice how her personification of businesses (as things that can "really sweat") and empathy for them far exceeds the level at which she humanizes workers.
It's almost like "Mary Elizabeth Elkordy, founder of the remote-based company Elkordy Global Strategies," has a keen sense for which team she belongs to.
It's gonna be middle managers and owners criticizing. The former because they add no value, the latter because... oh they add no value either, but they also profit off our work. But they're afraid their lack of value adding will be discovered.
it's entirely job dependent, a grocery store worker can't just decide they will not work one of the days anymore because the store needs to be open. but they work in shifts and different days already.
There will also be white collar jobs that can't just move to a different schedule, like support needs to be everyday regardless.
and if you are a software engineer there is a good chance you are already working remote and if you are good enough you are only working the days you want to.