Four-day work week reduces burnout and improves job satisfaction – study
Working a four day week reduces burnout and improves job satisfaction, a new study has found.
The research out of Boston College in the United States tested the effect of reducing employees hours to a four-day week with no reduction in pay.
The study held six-month trials reducing the working hours for 2896 employees across 141 organisations in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, Ireland and the USA.
The outcomes of the trials were then compared with 12 control companies that did not transition to the shorter work week.
NZ started the 4 day working week concept and it now has international research backing it up.
If we can’t compete with the wages Australia offers, then surely we should focus on making the work life more appealing.
Turn all State organisations into 4 day working weeks and push for it across all industries and use the extra need for staff to cover that extra day as a means top get people into more part time work.
What better way to celebrate the great Kiwi, Samuel Parnell who introduced the 40 hour working week to egalitarian NZ.
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Four days a week depends on your job ,my partner worked four days ten hours per day it wasn’t worth it.Come Friday his day of he was too tired and worn out to enjoy his day of. He worked in a paint factory and they had to work hard to get 5 days work out on four long days working ten hour days were too long. So 4 days don’t suit everyone.
The proposed idea is a 4 x 8 hour week with no reduction in pay, not cramming 40 hours into 4 days. Apparently productivity is boosted in many roles, as a lot of presenteeism and time wasting gets cut, while the work still gets done. As a bonus staff are generally happier and more motivated. Unfortunately it probably doesn’t work so well in factory time jobs, where work is continuous over the full shift. Personally I liked the 4 x 10 hour days, as a two day weekend is too short. Working 14 x 12 hour days with two weeks break in between was even better, especially while earning over $120K and having 5 weeks of holidays a year on top.
Next up: Universal basic Income. No need to work at all!
Nitrium we want a better basic than you – and will work as we can then afford the transport costs etc.
Unfortunately it is more likely to be “AI or robots take your job and you get to try an live on a reduced benefit”. No one seems to be seriously pushing a UBI sadly.
A small business owner would have to cover the cost of extra employees for that fifth day.
A 9 person 5 day a week business would then require 11.25 workers to carry out the same work costing the business $23.50 x 18 = $423 and that’s on minimum wage plus 10 days sick 4 weeks annual leave and stats all paid for with an increase in prices.
Customers are looking for at least a five day buying week.
How do State employed teachers work a 4 day week. Where do the kids go on the 5th day?
Also a lot of people think the state and local body bureaucrats already only put in 4 days effort for 5 days pay at tip top pay rates.
The experiment may just be confirming that people who slack on the 5th day are happier if they are just paid to go home.
But personally would love to work a 4 day week.
What a pile of self-centered, entitled, middle-class, self-serving greed. No. Just no. Just for once, do it properly!
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