A List Apart: Articles: The Four-Day Week Challenge

A List Apart: Articles: The Four-Day Week Challenge
The idea of working four, slightly longer, days is very appealing. Whether or not you can do it depends on the culture of your workplace. I can't see an assembly line worker being allowed to work different hours than the rest of the line. Such flexibility isn't usually available in unionized industrial settings.
For me, the key idea in this piece comes in the middle when he asks if your life should facilitate your work, or if your work should facilitate your life. The author says it should be the latter, but he doesn't explore the fact that the choice he is positing isn't one that all people have available to them. I know that when I have the choice I want my job to facilitate my life. I don't live for my job. But a lot of the time the job can impinge on the life negatively (deadlines, surprises, disease etc). It's situational.
People who work around the clock, come in on weekends, and skip vacations because there is too much to do need to tell the job to back off.