Before the pandemic, working remotely or hybrids was unthinkable for many companies and workers. Nowadays it is common practice that adds some effort to find the right one balance between work and personal life. Among them, a proposal to reduce the work week to four days to maintain mental health and avoid burned out (burned from work).
At the start of June, more than 3,300 employees from 73 UK companies started a six-month trial aimed at testing the efficiency and productivity of implementing a four-day workweek. With this goal in mind, Employees get one paid day off per week for studyled by the 4 Days Week Global organization, researchers from the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Boston College and the Institute of Autonomy.
According to the results of the initial investigation, published last wednesdayA four day work week won’t result in lost productivity: according to 46% of the leaders of the 41 companies consultedproductivity levels remained stable, and 34% showed a “slight increase”.
A very high percentage of respondents thought it was possible or very likely to maintain the four-day week policy after the probationary period.
Similar experiments are being carried out in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United States and Ireland, and there are already proposals to replicate studies in Spain by 2023.
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