4-Day Week

There’s been a push in recent times for a 4 day week in the UK and other European countries. Lots of articles are shared on the UK page about this and everyone’s supportive. They point to studies that suggest it’s better for worker turnover and burnout or whatever, with no drop in output.

It should be noted that this isn’t “compressed hours” but instead of a 40-hour week you’d do 32 hours with “no loss of pay”.

To me this is highly speculative. I try to point out that if productivity does decrease, real incomes will be worse even if pay is the same. Obviously this doesn’t go down well, probably because the anti-work anti capitalism bent of Reddit comes out. They seem to believe we work to enrich the 0.1% and the stuff we produce goes into the ether, rather than being consumed by other workers.

Am I wrong in this analysis?