Our company, Fairway Homecare, focuses on our social care staff and clients and sometimes we do forget about ourselves in the office. A lot of our staff have been with us for seven, eight or nine years and a lot of them have started families. We really like to pride ourselves in being innovative and our people go over and above anyway, so it was about creating more of a work-life balance.
Alex O'Neill addresses staff at Fairway Homecare in the U.K. The company is moving to a four day week in January 2022.Holiday allowance is pro rata so it's gone down from 28 days to 22-and-a-half per person, to reflect the four day week, but each staff member gets 52 extra days off. We've slightly elongated the days by 45 minutes and reduced lunch break to 30 minutes. But the net effect is that our staff are at least 6 and a half hours a week better off.
In any office, system or structure there is a lot of"less productive" time, so it's just a case of getting people to focus their minds and work in a more concentrated fashion over a shorter period of time. The way we operate as a team means that we don't have a set of tasks that one person completes and if they're not there, it sits on their desk waiting. The whole company is far more fluid than that. Our team works amongst themselves to make sure that tasks are completed.
Technically we have said we'll see how it goes and if it impacts performance and results, we can reverse it, but we are aware that could be quite a drawn out process. To be honest, I genuinely believe that we'll never go back to a five day week.
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