I work maintenance at a small liquefaction natural gas plant. We used to work 5 8's but was hard to get stuff done. Morning meetings, setup, lockout tagout, breaks and other planning issues resulted in long turnover times for work done. Ever since we went to 4 10's productivity went up and it's not really a big deal to stay those extra two hours plus three day weekends all year and in lieu of stat holidays make work life balance so much better. It's so good that by the end of the year guys struggle to use all of their PTO before the year is up. Another plus is if we work over 40 a week it's all double.
Generally from a management/employee perspective it's been a huge win.
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