Companies in the U.K. that experimented with a four-day workweek last year reported more revenue and less staff attrition, while most workers participating in the trial said they experienced less burnout, fewer negative emotions and more satisfaction with their work-life balance.Companies in the U.K.
In the past, U.S.-based companies including Microsoft MSFT and Shake Shack SHAK have experimented with a four-day workweek for salaried employees with some success. In a test conducted in 2019, Microsoft said productivity jumped 40% when employees worked four days a week, but the company did not subsequently implement a permanent four-day workweek.
“Overall satisfaction with work and life is higher, with employees reporting lower rates of burnout and better physical and mental health. People also have fewer problems with sleep and are exercising more,” said the report, which was based on data from researchers at Boston College and Cambridge University.
4 Day Week Global said it has studied 91 companies and around 3,500 workers — which includes the 61 companies from the most recent study — that have tried the compressed week. Researchers will have more findings from other parts of the world in the coming weeks and months. There’s still the ongoing push and pull on how many days bosses expect their staff to be physically present in the office. Remote work on a mass scale started as a white-collar contingency plan during the pandemic.
Show me your balance sheets !!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah they'll be laughing in the unemployment line