by So we all agree! The five -day working week must go. According to researchers, the work can only help protect their mental health four days a week.
A team at Boston College said that their pioneering study had resulted in more than 100 companies and almost 2,900 employees in the United States, Great Britain, Canada and Ireland that the shift was associated with both employers and employers with a high level of satisfaction.
This included an improvement in productivity and sales growth, the positive effects on physical and mental health as well as less stress and burnout. A survey of 2024 among more than 2,000 US employees showed that more than half of the respondents reported to feel exhausted in the workplace last year.
“When my respondent told her biggest customer that she would no longer work on Fridays, the answer she got was” good for her! “
The group was founded to offer supporters of the four -day week of a platform. “I think this is a symbol of how people have changed their thinking about the nature of work. We are at a point where the three -day weekend is now considered more sensible.”
The companies took place in a number of six -month studies that were set up until the global four -hour week. The pilot program did not reduce the payment of employees and the companies and organizations were not interested in it. The latest data from the first and second studies in which almost 33 companies were involved were published this month.
Researchers who also came from the University College Dublin collected information from employees through surveys and interviews, and the participating companies provided them with administrative data. They said they analyzing changes before and after the experiment as well as in countries and companies, in the demography of the employees and in Jobtype.
“The hours reduced, improves well-being and the most important organizational bottom line-line occurred-without the workers having to intensify their work requirements,” said Associate Professor Wen Fan.
The main reason that the employees had maintained productivity according to their assessment is that companies reduced or reduced the activities with questionable or low value, including sessions. Instead, meetings about messaging apps on telephone calls and conversations were discussed.
Another key factor was that the employees would use their third day off for the dates of the doctor and other personal errands that they could otherwise try to get into a working day.
Due to these changes, employers would have lower health costs and less employees with a four -day week, as the researchers found.
But it is not a “one -size pass all” approach. Some sped-up workplaces such as manufacturers will have difficulties with a four-day working week, as they found. In addition, you still have to test a four -day working week in a very large company. This included organizations of up to 5,000 people.
The study published in the magazine on Monday Nature human behavior, based on previous studies that have found similar advantages and are based on a recently carried out study in which it was found that long working hours can change the brain structure.
Fan said Gizmodo The fact that they continued to pursue the participants six months after the attempt has been completed and found that all important effects “exist”.
“Social change is always difficult, especially when it comes to challenging the deeply sitting institutional logic that dictates how, when and where we work. Let’s hope that we do not waste the Covid crisis in terms of the profound job innovations that he triggered,” said Fan in an explanation.
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