To: The Australian Government
It's time for a four day work week.
It's time for a Four Day Work Week.
Automation and technological advancements should have made our working lives easier, instead our work is intensifying, and we have been denied any substantial improvement to work/life balance since the invention of the weekend.
Skyrocketing cost-of-living means our salaries are not going nearly as far as they used to. Meanwhile companies who capitalised on the Covid-19 pandemic are now capitalising on global conflict to price-gouge while posting record profits.
Australian workers deserve pay rises that keep up with cost-of-living, and working hours that better reflect modern household and financial responsbilies.
It's time for the next big advancement to our work / life balance. It's time for a Four Day Work Week.
The weekend was won way back in 1947, a time when one salary was designed to sustain an entire family while women were largely expected to carry out all unpaid domestic labour. Since then, Australia has only seen a 2 hour reduction in working hours across 79 years! Productivity gains have ballooned, but who has benefitted?
Today, the top 10% take home 93% of all growth while the rest of us are left to fight for scraps.
Sign the petition to tell the Australian Government it's time for a Four Day Work Week.
Why is this important?
This week marks 170 years since the Melbourne University Stonemasons won the first 8 hour day in the world in Melbourne, Victoria.
Since then, we have seen the invention of the telephone, the light bulb, the automobile, radio, airplanes, television, computers, the internet, and now generative AI. Yet workers still work the same amount of hours, often more, and the Top-end-of-town reap all the rewards.
Australia led the world for workers' rights winning the 8 hour day. It's time to do it again.
It's time for a Four Day Work Week.
Since then, we have seen the invention of the telephone, the light bulb, the automobile, radio, airplanes, television, computers, the internet, and now generative AI. Yet workers still work the same amount of hours, often more, and the Top-end-of-town reap all the rewards.
Australia led the world for workers' rights winning the 8 hour day. It's time to do it again.
It's time for a Four Day Work Week.