5 seven hour days. Why would I prefer to work 5 hours more for the same pay?
I would definitely work the 4 ten hour days. When you work you basically give up your time (the most precious commodity that you have) for pay. Kind of like selling you soul bit by bit to make a buck. I would and have worked the 2 extra hours a day so I could get a whole extra day of my like back.
As someone pointed out, there’s a lot of savings when you drop a day - wardrobe for work, commute expenses, lunch and snacks, time saved, etc - and the day of freedom. However, if I were going to night school or something, yeah, I’d want the five shorter days.
I’ve worked compressed (alternating three and four 12-hour shifts per week) for the past quarter century, and I love it. I am worn out at the end of a week and I always think that I could better manage this huge chunk of weekend hours, but I obviously haven’t seen any reason to change. I’ve thought about changing career so that I could work twelves PRN, but that’s something I may take up in the future.
FWIW, if increases in productivity since the 1960s were returned to workers, we could all work 20 hour weeks for the same pay/standard of living we now get for 40 hour weeks.