Nine Day Week

This is one of the greatest ideas I’ve ever seen. I hope we can switch to 9 day week some day

Dr. Varsavsky rounded out his map of the nine day week’s full year by setting aside five days to celebrate carefully selected events like Christmas and the Fourth of July – days when everyone would be free from work except those needed for maintaining safety and order. The diagram below illustrates the arrangement of one nine day week, which would be repeated 40 times during the year. XXX shows the leisure time of three days; the letters OOO and QQQ represent the six work days but are split into two categories because some workers may want three day part time employment and six days of leisure – an individual choice that the Doctor thought would be particularly useful to senior workers who were tapering off toward retirement. Also, part-time work might serve families well by having one or both parents choose part-time employment in the interest of their children. The letters A, B, and C designate the three “cadres” that all workers are assigned to in approximately equal numbers in their workplaces.
DAYS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
A – X X X O O O Q Q Q
B – Q Q Q X X X O O O
C – O O O Q Q Q X X X
Listen to Dr. Varsavsky on the flexibility of this arrangement:
“We can picture the nine day week as made up of three periods of three days each that we call triads. Today most people work five days per week or 71.4% of the time. To maintain about the same ration of work to leisure on the nine day week, people would work two of the three triads, or 66.7% of the time. But in fact there will be many job openings for people willing to work just one triad of 33.3% of the time.” He goes on to praise the overall gain in leisure time created by the new work week and its significance in the quality of life in families and for individuals.

Read the entire article for the benefits of such a scheme. Pure Genius!