{"id":92,"date":"2009-10-27T15:37:27","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T22:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2009-10-27T15:37:27","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T22:37:27","slug":"the-four-day-work-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2009\/10\/27\/the-four-day-work-week\/","title":{"rendered":"The Four Day Work-week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been asked a few times by administrators to investigate what energy savings OSU might see if we shifted to a 4 day workweek (each day 10 hours).\u00a0 I don&#8217;t plan on posting my rather lengthy response here unless someone requests it.\u00a0 But the short answer is, there is indeed some net energy savings potential from the 4 day week, although there are also some potential costs that are hard to quantify.<\/p>\n<p>The brief review I conducted in May of this year led me to believe a 4-day work week would result in savings in utility costs of between 3-5%.\u00a0 I was reminded of my investigation by a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nwf.org\/campus\/2009\/08\/checking-in-with-utahs-shortened-workweek.html\" target=\"_blank\">post on National Wildlife Federation&#8217;s Campus Ecology Blog<\/a>.\u00a0 There, they revisited efforts in the State of Utah to shift to a shortened work week.\u00a0 Utah estimates savings of $1.8 million in utility costs, although this is short of the $3 million they hoped to save.\u00a0 However, just like the costs of the shift, there are savings that are difficult to quantify, such as employee morale and attendance improvement.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think OSU should do?\u00a0 Would you prefer a 4 day work week, or are you working one already?\u00a0 Comment online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been asked a few times by administrators to investigate what energy savings OSU might see if we shifted to a 4 day workweek (each day 10 hours).\u00a0 I don&#8217;t plan on posting my rather lengthy response here unless someone requests it.\u00a0 But the short answer is, there is indeed some net energy savings potential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":784,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}