I could get behind this four-day work week initiative
August 30th, 2008
I love holidays. Especially work holidays that don’t require me to be in California for work. A true holiday that I can lay on my couch all day and watch TV if I want.
The City of Birmingham and others places have started four-day work weeks to help cut costs. As a person that can work anywhere as long as I have an Internet connection and cell phone signal, I like this idea. I tend to work better in my pajamas. And I even have a webcam for conferencing if they absolutely need proof I’m working if the e-mails didn’t do that.
So this weekend I’m mostly lazy. Today I’m headed to Oxford to visit the Mississippi Merricks’. Robyn is working the Ole Miss game so I’m hitchhiking over with her. I’ll be back late tonight and tomorrow my house turns into a college student refuge. Elizabeth will be doing the church thing for me, eating my food and doing laundry which I think is going to become our Sunday tradition.
And then Monday is my holiday. Isn’t that fabulous?
Hear hear! While I can technically work from anywhere too, I’d love to see our company adopt it as a more official policy. Obviously it wouldn’t work for some people, but it would be a great official option for a lot of us and a good recruiting tool.