What if a strategy existed to increase employee engagement and productivity, resulting in higher customer satisfaction and increased revenue? What if that strategy required implementing a four-day workweek while paying employees as if they were working five? According to, a New Zealand financial services company that implemented the four-day week, it not only works but it also has the potential to become the new working standard.
Trust goes both ways. Lockhart explained that when Barnes first presented the idea to the executive team, they had no idea how to begin. For that reason, they decided to turn the concept over to their employees and let them figure out what it would take to work more efficiently. “The interesting thing was that the leadership team really didn't think it could be done,” said Lockhart.
The process Perpetual Guardian undertook to design, test and eventually implement this four-day model is documented in apublished earlier this year. “Most of the process improvements came from staff managing themselves differently,” said Lockhart. “It’s about becoming more aware of how they were spending their time.”
"When you make time the scarce resource, people look for ways to make the most of it in how they do their work," said Lockhart. “This is not a new idea, but an idea that’s time has come,” said Lockhart. “In our modern society, we recognize that work means we are clearing our emails on the weekends from our phones, and doing all sorts of things that take work out of the traditional workplace and bring it into our personal lives. But the modern world doesn't want to do that anymore. The modern workplace wants change.
Shit I work like 62 a week
I watched Adam ruins everything and this was one topic. The business he used as an example of the plus side of the 32 hour work week filed for bankruptcy , if I recall correctly.
Duh
Couldn't hurt.
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