The case for a 4-day work week

Yes, we bloody should.

Nurses and doctors are often called full-time at 32 hours. It's time to make that official, and stop burning our our medical folk. Making medicine into a calling only, and it's practitioners martyrs, helps no one.

Likewise, two grocery store workers should be able to raise children together and live a meaningful life. Since we're no longer paying people well enough to support a family with forty hours of labor, the least we can do is make it possible with sixty.

Not to sound sarcastic/mean here, just my way of thinking - If four days a week is better than five, why not three? Why stop there, why not two days a week? Wouldn't the metrics show that workers are "happier" only working two days a week for five days worth of pay? Wouldn't the metrics show that workers have a better life outside of work if they only have to work two days a week? Of course they would be. Does that mean we should do it? Does that mean it's what's best for us?

What would the long term results of our country working less be? Do you honestly think if we stopped putting as many days of work in that we'd be just as productive? What would the long term happiness of the workers be when the results of everyone just not working as much finally impacts our economy/country? Do you honestly think there will be no impact?

The research also don't seem very impressive. It's like the UBI studies where they just give a small group of people free money every month for a while, and those people say that it made them happy, so apparently that's all the evidence we need that it's a good idea, because they were happy. Of course giving free money to people makes them happy. Of course paying people the same amount for less hours of work makes them happy. That's not the point. My questions are a) does it actually work at scale, and b) does it produce good long term results.