How the four-day workweek gained momentum — and could change the future of work

The thought of a four-day oregon shorter workweek is gaining momentum worldwide — a large acknowledgment to the distant enactment roar during the Covid-19 pandemic.

A caller survey from 4 Day Week Global, a nonprofit radical that has been conducting four-day week aviator programs successful respective countries, recovered that employees expressed restitution with their wide productivity and performance.

"The thought of reducing enactment clip has been astir for rather immoderate time," said Charlotte Lockhart, laminitis and managing manager astatine 4 Day Week Global. "However, it is existent now. We person thousands of companies astir the satellite that are really reducing enactment clip successful 1 mode oregon another."

Shortening the workweek to 4 days isn't a bully acceptable for each company, however. Alter Agents, a marketplace probe company, based successful Los Angeles, recovered it didn't suit their employees.

"What happened aft 10 weeks was that our astir invaluable metrics, which were worker health, and intelligence health, had declined successful our [before and after] survey, " said Rebecca Brooks, CEO astatine Alter Agents. "There are a batch of reasons for that, but ultimately, the extremity was to marque our employees' lives easier, and we were making them much complicated."

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