How Working on Weekends Became the Norm | WSJ Your Money Briefing

[@titolovely8237]

Many employers have simply adopted a deadline strategy for projects where it doesn’t really matter where the work gets done as long as it’s done on time

[@davel4143]

I think I do the same. On my work from home days, I will use some time to quickly run errands but use weekend to finish off my work. I think it works out just fine as long as you do it correctly.

[@auro1986]

how? quantity won quality lost

[@amatvkhmer]

yes

[@MisterKelisi]

@@auro1986 you document your work and every step of your work. Many companies have internal auditing groups that monitor quality control.

[@kozykev]

This is one of the main reasons I left my corp job, constant emails on weekends and after hours, I could be grocery shopping, eating dinner with family or enjoying Sunday football and be expected to answer random “urgent” email that usually could have waited until the next business day… all of that extra work was unpaid, another reason why i prefer hourly pay over salary…

[@CHMichael]

That's the difference - working with or for others or getting your work done instead of Friday afternoon or Monday morning. Weekend is to do working without getting interrupted. ( does not apply to people that take off random days during the week)

[@ssuwandi3240]

Then nonstop ESG Racism brainwashing . I think like others say. The dying empire of Rome was exactly like this..

[@ropro9817]

Lol, companies _love_ to preach that they consider work-life balance important. I have never in my decades long career _not_ worked on weekends.

[@h.e.pennypacker4728]

I think most of us that work extra on the weekend do so because we are overloaded, not because we get more freetime during the week. Didnt even address this?

[@dajon661]

In public accounting - we work 6 days a week averaging around 60 hours/week for about 6-8 months and 7 days a week averaging 70-80 hours/week for 2-3 months out of the year. It sucks and everyone seems burned out :/

[@sov19871987]

U am in public accounting, large firm, and there is no way I am working that much. Was working at big 4 and never worked over 60 hours during the busy season. Don't allow top managers to abuse you.

[@mmartinez9883]

I’d rather work government and have a life outside of work any day than to slave away in public

[@JamesF22]

The fun don’t stop

[@MrSupernova111]

I really don't like this lazy youtube videos that resemble a podcast more than a video. Also, I'm not going to work my day off to continue making the elite class richer. Its time for this nonsense to stop.

[@johnrebel8925]

What is your vocation?

[@MrSupernova111]

@@johnrebel8925 . Finance

[@e.sanoop110]

Its high time people demanded a 4 day work week across all companies. That will ensure a good work life balance for everyone including the top management.😎😎

[@potapotapotapotapotapota]

Working on weekends (and night shift) is inevitable when we expect to have emergency services, fast delivery supply chains and public transport, on call repairmen, food services, etc, etc. All these things are necessary in a broken world. At the very least we should legally be allowed to define our own weekends and sync them up with the ones closest to us in life. We should normalize being a "Monday weekends" person and/or a "Tuesday weekends" person, for example so that we can co-ordinate better with everyone. If everyone has to "work weekends" then none of us will because weekends wont exist. Then there will be no discrimination against people who would otherwise have to sacrifice time with their family and friends for the sake of their job.

[@jasourwnjl]

The Wall Street Journal is geared towards the ruling class, not the little people who facilitate their everyday lives.

[@ET76001]

This was not the point of this video.

[@doom-mantia]

"Work Work Work Work Work Work Work Work Work Work Work Work Work." - Rihanna

[@skyking6989]

I already only work 3 days a week Thursday Friday Saturday. My weekend is Sunday-Wednesday. Its awesome!

[@-.TS.-]

It’s really exciting to be able to spend my weekend working to get ahead. It reduces the stress during the week to meet tight deadlines.

[@zhuyaj]

People work on the weekends because they are overworked/overloaded and not choosing to.

[@eddiemalvin]

If your manager sends you emails during your "off hours", you should immediately begin efforts to replace them as your manager. I don't care whether they preface the email with "no need for immediate response" or "so sorry to trouble you", it shows an incredible lack of respect for your work-life balance. Dump them.

[@wiandryadiwasistio2062]

asian workforce: i pretend i didn’t see that/i’ll ignore these because i can’t read!

[@rachelhobbs6189]

I thought this was interesting, I’ve been wondering the same thing myself, but I disagree to some extent with the reasons given. I admit I don’t know the actual data on this, but I feel like why we work on the weekends has been happening for a long time not just since the pandemic or since 2021. It makes sense that it’s related to job flexibility, but it doesn’t feel like I get a rest during the week either which is what that implies. I think your analysis missed a major component, which is that the flexibility to do things like picking up the kids from school during the week is still mostly a job that moms take on or at least do more of, and also it’s still work! It’s unpaid, but it’s work. So it’s not like we really have a break, not even on the weekends. Second, I strongly disagree with your end recommendation. I think it’s overly simplistic to say that people should just change their attitude to work and stop getting stressed out by it, just enjoy it. Like, what? First of all, everything if done enough will make you feel horrible. Like I love running and running is super good and healthy for me in general, but if I did it 50 hours a week even if I built up to that level then I would still experience overtraining and burnout and fatigue. Same thing with work, even if you find your job really fulfilling you will resent it and experience the same fatigue and overtraining symptoms if you have to do it all of the time. That’s why doing hobbies generally feels so special. I think the real way to look at this is not how much time spent on paid work vs. everything else. The real way to look at this is how much time to we spend doing all types of work, including unpaid care work like caring for kids and pets, care for the elderly or other people and work around the house, and our full time jobs vs. time that you actually get to do hobbies and do enjoyable exercise and see friends. We have a friendship crisis and a hobby crisis and an exercise crisis and a sleep crisis and all of those are things we really need to examine.

[@danielcurry4011]

I wish people stop judging just weekends,you only work weekends you take whatever job you can get still putting in work, making honest living instead begging for money in public places. I don't hear you only work weekdays,weekends need to be more accepted.

[@toddli5272]

Working on the weekend like usual.

[@camnova]

spoiler alert: there's too much work

[@FFact483]

I worked for Media in Advertising- we gladly worked 7 days a week. Who says no to thousands of dollars in sales? Well i can tell you first hand - if I didn’t take the call ☎️ another news outlet would gladly pick up those dollars. That call may never come again.

[@yongjinnkim9207]

I am an operational manager in a company. I've heard some people are having a side job during in remote working hours. The person who reported it to me is a person who hates someone who has a side job. Someone thinks the situation is quite unfair, but it is really sensitive to open up and talk. Everyone thinks they should be paid more and more than others. And everyone always hates each other as well as obviously a human being is full of greed to make more money. It is natural for a worker not to try to work too much for the company. During working hours, as a manager, I am deeply focused on my own work and projects. It's a bit difficult to distinguish who is in burnout or who is working for their side job. I think it's better to keep it clear about the working time. During a worker is at home, it's impossible to monitor if a person is really working for the company. If an employer thinks of productivity, they need to get the workers to the office.

[@NatureOfRealityRadio]

If society wants to see the day where we can live without money and get all of our needs provided for plus lots of stuff we don't need, then we need to be willing to work for free knowing that the consciousness will reward us if we serve others.

[@attilabalazs8739]

I would never thought that the Homelander works for Wall Street Journal.

[@matthewb.7172]

It is not the norm everywhere.

[@unfoldablewealth]

In the words of Gerald Peters... "Weekends are for getting rich!". In this economy, at least for the short term, you just have to be willing to work longer to stay at a level, let alone get ahead

[@nowhere474]

LISTEN PETER ..... YEAH... WE'RE GOING TO NEED YOU TO COME IN ON SATURDAY.... YEAH... WE'RE GOING TO NEED YOU TO COME IN ON SUNDAY, TOO..... YEAH

[@juancarlosherreraburbano194]

I don't like she is in favor of this. Work-life balance, sooener or later it will be your priority

[@ciararespect4296]

Fools i dont work at all lol 😂

[@c87kim]

So if you paid attention to Metrics that actually matter… like the Steam charts. When work from home started, peak gaming times changed from the evening to the morning. It hasn’t changed at all since then. Ppl just playing video games all day now lol

[@santaclosed5062]

It sounds very unjustified to praise weekend work as a balancing act of work-life relationship. No, it is not. Once more and more people start working on weekend, it will invite entire industries to disregard weekend in their production scheduling. And you will simply lose your weekend. Obviously, there are plenty of people who are obliged to work during weekend, for them, their right and well deserved payment have to be granted as for an exceptional services and sacrifices. However it doesn’t justify weekend works for everybody. By the sound of this video, it seems like that certain business communities and possibly some politicians of US want to make people work during entire week without weekend time under the name of flexible hours, whereas other countries started experimenting 4 days or 4.5 days work week. I guess, those guys want to transform entire labor market into Geek economy where we are forced to work without life to get just minimum wages. If that’s the case, it is simply a very bad move even for the entire economy. We should not forget that, in our history of humanity, how difficult it was to have the weekend we know nowadays.

[@moisesespiritosanto2195]

Hi, I'm from São Paulo!

[@fiamond]

Just don't do it. Who cares if it's corporate America

[@auro1986]

how? quantity won quality lost

[@wiandryadiwasistio2062]

that explains everything on why we got more trashes than actual *goods*

[@squirrelcovers6340]

NEVER

[@log10xp]

Just a note, when a company shrinks, first ones to go out are the ones who insist on working from home

[@elcanalderebeca]

Holaaaaa

[@Shadow-tm9wr]

what

[@thecafcl8409]

Jews