Who’s Afraid of the Four Day Work Week?
This is the weekend edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing. If you’re a “full-time” employee, your work week is likely five days (if not more), and spans 40 ho...
Hasnain says:
This was a really interesting and engaging read on the 5 day / 40 hour work week and experiments that have been done trying to bring it down to 4 days, both pre and during the pandemic.
“Some Perpetual Guardian workers took off Mondays, some Fridays, others loved a day off in the middle of the work week, but everyone took it, from the newest hires to the most senior managers. The effect was startling: at the end of a two-month trial, productivity had risen 20% — and “work-life” balance scores rose from 54% to 78%. After making the change permanent, overall revenue went up 6% — and profitability went up 12.5%.”
Posted on 2021-07-12T07:40:36+0000