MARK SMITH: SA launches four-day work week pilot with 30 companies

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The six-month experiment aims to balance performance and respect for workers’ lives in an emerging economy facing unique challenges

The start of the month of March marks the launch of SA’s four-day week pilot. About 30 companies from across the country will participate in a six-month experiment where employees will work just four days a week yet deliver the same tasks, services and products for their organisations.

The SA pilot includes organisations in the public and private sectors and those driven by both profit and a social purpose. However, there is an underrepresentation of the largest organisations, a bias towards knowledge workers and the more educated strata of society. Future pilots, of which there will certainly be some, will need to explore how to test such innovations with a wider range of employees in the SA economy.

These organisations are high-performing companies and in highly-competitive sectors. As in all competitive sectors, the competition is based on the service and product offered to clients, but also the recruitment and retention of talent. Offering a challenging high-performance workplace combined with working patterns that respect people’s private lives is an exciting and competitive employer proposition in today’s world.

 

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