solution #528

As unemployment continues to rise we can do a life style change that will compel more jobs to be created. Reduce the standard work week by 20%, across all industries, across all jurisdictions, across all boundaries.

For the typical 9-5er, this means working four days a week instead of five.

For people who do shift work, working 60 hours a week, this means now doing 48 hours per week.

Presuming a company wants to maintain the same level of production they had had previously, this would compel them to hire an extra person for every four employees they already have.

In schools that all now follow a 5/2 school day/weekend schedule, they could now follow a 4/3 schedule. This would allow the teachers and school support staff to cut by 20%, and it will also allow the kids to enjoy more of their childhood.

If solution #634 is implemented at the same time, these people will get a raise in pay at the same time that they get their pay cut by 20% (due to working 20% less) so they should be able to maintain, perhaps with a small amount of sacrifice, the standard of living they have. In fact, their quality of life will improve because they won't be having to be at work as much.