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I work 35 hours a week, and I go to university for around 25. Last year I had 7 day weeks all year and it was very much not fun.

I could do it if I had to for a bit, but the whole 'being too exhausted to exist' thing gets old fast.

Stay in the union .

There are currently no laws indicating how many work days should be in the 7 day week.

There is no reason to implement such a thing either to take work days away or add them. Work days are dictated by the employer in accordance with how much work needs to be done.

How much someone should work should be negotiated between employee and employer. I understand that this isn't really how it works in the real world but this is how it is on paper.

I bring this up because there's no real way to institute a nationwide "7 day work week" making this question totally pointless and nonsensical.

Small acts of rebellion. Take extra long breaks. Automate parts of my job and then don't tell anybody that I did it. Break some shit on purpose and act like it was an accident. Steal as much stuff that isn't nailed down as possible. The list would go on, but I'd honestly have no idea what I would actually do in that situation.

I'm certainly not giving it 100% at whatever job I'm working at. I would say form a union, but that's hard to do when you are working for 56 hour workweeks plus commute, not including overtime. That's assuming the 7 day workweek remains 8 hour shifts rather than moving down to something like 6 hour shifts with an unpaid lunch break.

Wake up from that terrible nightmare and go to my 4-day/week job?

I don't do shit for two days a week.

Try to move out of China.

They literally have 6-7 day work weeks, 10-12 hours a day.

Fucking brutal.

I love what I do, and work+uni combined, I approach the 70h/week of time investment anyways.

Though it only works because I like investing the extra time - I might start hating it, if it becomes the normality.

I fear many people in differing fields would get overworked quickly, the birth-rate would drop, as well as overall GDP.

It’s called a wildcat strike

I've been hearing about a 4 day work week but haven't heard anyone talking about 7 days.

I picture country-wide strikes, even for non-union workers.

Suicide. I'm dead already if I'm working 7 days a week

Or just don't comply with it ?

I mean no one uses fucking iso8601 and they never get brutally murderd anywhere near often enough.

I join whatever new labor movement forms and sharpen my guillotine.

I invent the 10 day week.

Eat the rich

I buy a fucking guillotine.

I stop working altogether.

For real. That's what happens. When I am in serious overload, I get kinda blocked and cannot achieve anything anymore.

But also on a global level, I think it would break down most workers quite soon.

Join the global strike that would inevitably happen.

Call in sick 3 days a week.

Excuse me what, in Europe we are snuggling up with the idea of a 4 day work week

Murder.

The longest I ever did it was 5 weeks straight working 12 hour nights too. Everyone thought I'd quit, but I ran circles around them.

Everyone basically gets way less productive, especially with any physically strenuous activity. It's like you/your body knows full recovery is not an option. You don't get more done, you're just there when shit hits the fan.

I personally adjusted just fine. It is no different than slavery. All labor is technically wage slavery. I owned my own business before and after that job. Owning your own business is no different. The line between your life and your business is irrelevant when it is your own business, especially if you have employees.

Bruh a lot of us are out here with two jobs already working nine shifts a week. People are gonna do what they got to do.

I'm WFH with a pretty chill work day except I'm on standby 24/7 in case of something stupid happens at work. So not much would change for me, honestly.

Switch to a part time job.

murder most likely

By changing the global standard.

Elaborate death traps for my enemies.