Do we need weekends?

Asks Tammy Erikson on her Harvard Review post, which makes for an interesting read.

Most workers follow a Monday to Friday pattern, relax at the weekends. Erickson believes that the declining need for synchronous tasks and the development of Web 2.0 tools means that the idea of a corporation telling us which days to work (and when to “rest”) can become outdated. She points out that the key driver for syncronous presence (or perhaps rationalisation?) is meetings. She makes reference to Best Buy and how with their shift from a time-based to a task-based management approach, soon found many meetings being canceled and people decided that it wasn’t really necessary to get together physically – at least not nearly as often – to get things done. That of course would be totally no surprise to Gen Y's who grow up using networking tools and can tell you how much easier and faster it is to do this with Web 2.0 tools.

So would you prefer to name the days, hours, and location of when you work? If you could set your own schedule, what would you choose?