The CEO of a Toronto tech company says a trial into four-day work weeks has been a big success and the experiment even brought forward an "unanticipated" result., said the software company company implemented four-day work weeks for its 500 employees at the start of June and the two-month trial wraps up this week.
"This is about getting better balance for our employees and helping to invest in their mental health," he said Wainwright said the company will take the next six weeks to review the results of the trial and hopes four-day work weeks will become a permanent part of the company’s benefit package.
Good evening Sir Justin Trudeau, if you will excuse me, I have four years and two months in Canada on my own, my wife and children are yet to come, and my mental state and that of my wife and children is very bad, please help, Your Excellency
Employers still expect the same workloads to get done and will show you the door. Before I retired, the workloads had people never taking lunch, working late from home in the evening and weekends. There is no such thing as work-life balance, never has been and never will be.
The problem come when other companies adjust according to lower hours. Some will, some won’t. For those paid hourly, it may cost them 20% of their annual earnings.