UK firms make four-day workweek permanent after world’s biggest trial
UK firms make four-day workweek permanent after world’s biggest trial
A UK study shows work intensity remains lower and job satisfaction is higher during a four-day workweek.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12307563
A UK study shows work intensity remains lower and job satisfaction is higher during a four-day workweek.
The majority of companies in the United Kingdom that took part in the world’s largest study trialling a four-day workweek have made the policy permanent, with 100 per cent of managers and CEOs saying it had a “positive” impact on the organisation.
Some 61 organisations took part in the six-month pilot in 2022. The trial results were announced on Thursday with 89 per cent of companies still using the four-day workweek a year later and over half of the firms making the change permanent.
The study also showed that work intensity remains lower and job satisfaction is higher than before the pilot began with almost all the employees (96 per cent) saying their personal life had benefited, and 86 per cent said they felt they performed better at work.
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In a forty-year career, that would work out to about 2000 extra days off, more than 5 1/2 cumulative years of work-free days.
Same math, but that's 50 more days off a year, give or take. Most people would kill for that.
(I'm for the m-th, tu-f pair of weeks to get a 4 day every other weekend)
Where do I do the killing?
I also wish to know.