Wednesday, January 18, 2006

35 hours per week?

Call it the influence of the French Culture, but I strongly support the idea. I was in for a pleasant surprise to see my views being supported by Bertrand Russell in his book "In Praise of Idleness". He managed to justify 4 hours of work per day is all a man needs to run his living. I think that is probably a little too less. I favor a little more - 6 hours of work (is perfect). Neither too long nor too short. It is like sitting through two indian movies :). That simple.
To effect this, the systems must be automated to shut down after 6 hours of work. It would be interesting to observe if people perform more efficiently under this system. Even in a typical 8 hour day, we spend 1 hour at lunch and 1 hour taking tea breaks b/w our 3 hour meetings. Err..efficiency?
Plus, think about this: The saddest thing of the current lifestyle we lead now is that we never see the sunshine, the landscapes and the beauty of the world we live in. I mean, we should be gifted to get so much of sunshine, guys. Think of the souls that work in the Scandanavian zones. So go out and hug the sunshine.
But then again, decision: On one hand you have life which can give you experiences of different shades and tones. On the other hand you have work for which you take the same route, sit in the same office, perform the different kind of activities to solve the same kind of problems.
And like all good things, life is less in hours and you are always planning to go through it, while "real life" walks past you.

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