No One Wants 40 Hour Work Weeks Anymore. Everyone Wants to Work 4 Hours Per Week on a Laptop In Bali

The idea of working a 40-hour workweek can cause a 20 to 30 something-year-old to run kicking and screaming to the far ends of the earth. We get gag reflex just from the notion of clocking in at 8am on Monday morning, grabbing a sandwich during a specified lunch hour, and joining the mad rush of commuters back home at 5pm.

Then, rinse and repeat for four more days till the glorious mini-escape of the weekend rolls around.

I’ll admit, even writing about it makes me a little nervous and uncomfortable.

The monotony? Routine? Job security and benefits?

These are unwelcome and oddly foreign ideas to many young professionals.

We scroll through enviable news feeds on Instagram of people in shorts and flip flops, staring at a beach sunset in an exotic location working on their laptop amidst the backdrop of a tropical holiday, living their best life.

A life that was once reserved and assumed could only be attained for 65-year-old retirees is now sought out by 25 year-olds with a laptop.

Previously, you had to work for at least a year at a new company to accumulate enough vacation days to take off for a week but that’s no longer an acceptable option for many.

We’ve become the generation that wants to have their cake and eat it too.

This movement caught my eye when my friends were changing their jobs and companies every one to two years. It seemed every time we met up, they were interviewing for a new position at a new company or were serving two week’s notice for their current employer.

Some requested transfers to a new office. Others made bigger changes and packed up their possessions into storage units and literally moved to Bali or Spain with nothing but a few thousand dollars in savings and their Macbooks.

We’ve realized that knowledge work doesn’t have to be done in a cubicle in a skyscraper. As long as we have a decent wifi connection, we can do (most) of our jobs anywhere. Those Monday meetings can be held over Zoom. We don’t really care for watercooler chat with our colleagues when there’s Slack. Added to that, the pandemic made this even more true as we were all forced to do our 9–5 work from home.

This applies to the rest of the workforce too — the freelancers and those who work in the gig economy. They can be Uber drivers anywhere so they’re location-independent. They can manage their Amazon FBA business and Shopify store just as effectively from a beach in Seychelles or a café in Paris. They don’t want 10 vacation days a year, and leases that are difficult to break.

Freedom and mobility are more important than dental benefits.

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