The concept of a four-day or much shorter workweek is acquiring momentum worldwide– a huge thanks to the remote work boom throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.
A current research study from 4 Day Week Global, a not-for-profit group that has actually been performing four-day week pilot programs in a number of nations, discovered that staff members revealed fulfillment with their general performance and efficiency.
“The idea of reducing work time has been around for quite some time,” stated Charlotte Lockhart, creator and handling director at 4 Day WeekGlobal “However, it is real now. We have thousands of companies around the world that are actually reducing work time in one way or another.”
Shortening the workweek to 4 days isn’t a great suitable for every business, nevertheless. Alter Agents, a marketing research business, based in Los Angeles, discovered it didn’t fit their staff members.
“What took place after 10 weeks was that our most important metrics, which were staff member health, and psychological health, had actually decreased in our [before and after] study,” stated Rebecca Brooks, CEO at AlterAgents “There are a lot of reasons for that, but ultimately, the goal was to make our employees’ lives easier, and we were making them more complicated.”
Watch the video above to find out whether the four-day workweek is what working life will appear like in the future.
