It is more enjoyable to have a job where you work only three days a week for long hours than to have a job where you work five days a week for shorter hours.

It is more enjoyable to have a job where you work only three days a week for long hours than to have a job where you work five days a week for shorter hours.

It is argued for a long time whether people should work more days for less time or not. From my standpoint, working five days a week for shorter hours is much more enjoyable. I hold the view for two main reasons, which I will explore in the following essay.

To begin with, working five days for shorter hours can effectively spread the pressure of assignments. Encountering heavy work is inevitable for employees and they may suffer from great pressure if deadline is shortened to three days. Most of the pressure drives people feel overwhelming is caused by the closing deadline and five days’ working is able to distribute works to different days so that people can arrange work by themselves. It is known to us that Japan has the highest suicide rate over the wold, continuously heavy work and deadlines one after another may account for the phenomenon somewhat.

Furthermore, five days’ working means more available times for employees to think about the best way to solving problems. A lot of people including me have the experience that sophisticated questions are solved naturally after resting. Psychology interpret this phenomenon as the result of brain’s unconsciously working. Anyway, what we can infer is that it is much more efficient to spend spared time on the problem than continuously working whole day and the enjoyment people get after completing a hard job will in turn influence their moods in a good way.

Given the aforesaid analysis , I can draw the conclusion that working five days a week is more suitable and feasible for people. People can avoid being bothered by the pressure that deadline brings and they will be more likely to deal with difficult problems in perfect way.