Work days

One of the common objections to decimal time is that ten isn’t evenly divisible by three, so how are workers going to have three shifts a day, which currently makes for eight hours per shift? How will they have the same number of workdays with ten-day weeks?

The answer is obvious: they aren’t! Why do we need three shifts? To maximize corporate profit! In the future, employees should be able to work the best schedule for themselves. Workweeks are already becoming more flexible for white-collar workers. For instance, instead of forty hours, we might have four shifts of six hours, or 25 centidays, and three days on with two off, or six or seven on and three or four off. “But John,” I hear you say, “that’s a lot of lost time for productivity!” You say that like it’s a bad thing! Actually, data shows that it would increase productivity. 

But aren’t we more than just wage slaves? Before the French Revolution, workers worked twelve hours a day, six out of seven days per week. During the Revolution, they worked five decimal hours for nine out of ten days a décade, with only Décadis off. They weren’t very happy about this even though they got a half-day off on Quintidi, which averages out the same. That’s 40 decidays a decaday (72 hours a week) eventually became 40 hours a week. It can still go even lower. We just have to “think outside the (corporate) box!”  Unfortunately,  the working class is working more hours, not less.

18 Ventôse year CCXXXI, pimpernel day @ 1^h 93^m 74^s PMT