The Floor
Will a four-day week be normal in your country within ten years?
Trials keep reporting well and almost nothing changes. Say what you actually expect.
Concluded from · Assessed from the stance that normal means a majority of full-time workers, not a pilot.
Closes at 1,500 answers
961 people have taken a position.
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The split is covered until you have taken a position, because on a question like this the room is not evidence about the world — it is what is being measured, and a number shown first would only tell you what the normal answer is. It opens to everybody when this closes, answered or not.
What people are weighing
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- Trial retention has held above ninety percentNormal within ten years
- No country has legislated it in ten years of trialsStill a trial in ten years
- Shift work and care work cannot compress into four daysStill a trial in ten years
What settles this, and when it closes
This one has no answer. It has a room. Nothing in the world settles it — so when it closes, the floor says what it concludes, from a stated stance.
Counting closes as soon as 1,500 people have answered.
What people said · 3
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Grace T.@grace_t· 1 Sept
Every trial is run by the kind of employer that would run a trial. That is not the economy.
Hannah L.@hannah_l· 9 Sept
Ten years of pilots and no legislature has touched it. Trials that never become law are a way of not deciding, and that can run another decade.
Wes A.@wes_a· 10 Sept
Retention is the number employers actually act on. When the finance side started quoting it, the argument stopped being about wellbeing.
