Jul 04 2008
4 Day Work Week In Utah?
Yep. Starting next month a 4 day work week will start. This is to save more energy. And workers will have more free time to enjoy themselves, spend time with family, and just relax. Places like golf courses are predicted to beneift greatly from this. This order was issued by Gov. Jon Huntsman (R). It will affect near 17,000 out of 24,000 executive-branch emplyees. Thats a big change. But it won’t cover prison guards,state police officers, employees of tha courts, or Utah’s public universities. One other fact many will want to know is that state run liquor stores will still be open for business on Fridays. I wonder if employees will be paid more and what will go on with all that? This cut in work days will help tha enviroment, thats less gas for cars, electricity, and all that. Imagine tha money workers will save over time by not buying as much gas weekily. Employees in six buildings alone, will save more than $300,000 on gas. This estimate was made by The Department of Environmental Quality. Another interesting fact about this is they only put in 10 hours a day. So 40 hours in 4 days and then 3 days off. So theres free time to just relax, work around tha house, spend with tha family, go out, get a part time job, or whatever. I wonder if this will catch on and more states will begin to do this? Also could this affect schools? What if in tha near future schools cut back on hours or days, or even change tha school year length? This should reduce CO2 and help tha ozone. Also tha gov. said younger workers may eventually want a 3 day week. Thats kinda crazy, I mean work 3 days and have 4 off? You better be getting paid alot to make it off that.
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