The campaign for a four-day work week has been going on for years in many parts of the world, and around a hundred companies in Great Britain with a total of 2,600 employees have adopted the model permanently, writes The Guardian.
Avin, an international marketing platform, is one of the two largest companies in the UK with 450 employees. The company’s CEO, Adam Rose, said the decision was a “big change”.
– Over the course of a year and a half, we have seen a huge increase in employee well-being, but our customer service and other types of relationships have improved, he says in the newspaper.
Now, a pilot program is also underway in Great Britain, where around 3,300 employees at 70 companies are testing the four-day week. In an assessment in September, 88 percent of companies responded that the model worked well. About 95 percent indicated that productivity had been maintained or increased since the trial began.
According to Jo Ryle, campaign manager in the UK, interest in the four-day week is now on the rise, despite businesses facing a long slump.
– By the end of this decade, we want the four-day workweek with maintained pay to be the standard working hours model. So we’re aiming for more companies to adopt it in the coming years, he tells The Guardian.
He also believes that working four days a week is a way to deal with the economic crisis.
– While many companies find it difficult to pay inflationary salary increases of ten percent, we are starting to see four-day weeks without salary loss as an alternative, he says.
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