Summary-Response Essay for “We should all be working a four-day week. Here’s why”

In his article”We should all be working a four-day week. Here’s why”, Owen Jones gives us a couple of reasons about why workers should work four-day a week. Because overwork has caused significant damage, and it is always the reason why workers demand liberation. As far as I learned, I agree with all the author’s points.

Jones makes two points in the article. The first point is that the idea of four-day week benefit workers. Jones suggests that four-day week could improve all the manner of the nation’s health. He further states that four-day week could encourage men to do more household tasks to promote the equal relationship between men and women. And Jones makes her second argument by saying that the idea of four-day week benefits the society. He asserts that a four-day week would force a redistribution between “overtime” workers and “underemployed” workers. Then he states that a four-day working week could also help tackle climate change and boost productivity. Jones ends by saying that on its own the demand is not enough, more worker self-management can control also should be created.

Jones’s article contains lots of convincing points by giving us professional research, examples, and authentic data. For instance, he says”While some are working too much, … there are 3.3 million or so “underemployed” workers who want more hours” to prove his idea that a four day week can create more poorly paid work and more underemployment. He also states a real case as an example to make the point that a four-day week can increase economy more convincing by saying that “Indeed, a recent experiment with a six-hour working day at a Swedish nursing home produced promising results: higher productivity and fewer sick days.”

In conclusion, Jones makes his argument that we all should work four-day a week very strong and convincing by analyzing reasons and showing research and data. It’s necessary that working four-day a week should be demanded not only to benefit workers by improving their health condition and making them happy but also for a better society with good environment and rational distribution of work time.