>Seven companies provided data on revenue and of those, six reported monthly revenue growth, with one seeing a decline.
Most businesses see revenue growth so that in itself is meaningless.
>The results show 100% of the employees involved in the trial said they would prefer a reduced work schedule.
Get a load of this, people dont want to work as much. Riveting finding.
>”As an SME, it was difficult for us to match the salaries paid to recruiters by large multinationals such as big tech, so we were looking for a non-monetary, transformative benefit to provide a solution,” said co-founder Barry Prost.
This is the greatest benefit to having a 4 day week for the company. These companies in the trial are probably tiny companies who would struggle to pay staff the wages others do. However, that benefit would disappear if everyone worked 4 days. I just checked one of the companies, Codema. They only have 20 staff.
I remember on an all-staff call earlier this year the question of a four-day week was put to one of the executives. “You want 5 days pay for 4 days work? ” was his response.
No you cheeky bastard we are salaried for a 36 hour week and those 36 hours can be completed over four days.
Our place trialled a 4 day week recently. 35 hours a week (down from 37.5-39 hours) and the vast majority were happy. The difference in wages was negligible for the extra 3 or 4 hours a week being there and travelling etc. It lasted 2 weeks due to reducing our lead times for orders.
Article doesn’t mention if it’s cramming 5 days into 4 or an actual 4 day working week.
If it was 4 days but the same hours as a five day week,I don’t think I’d be bothered unless I was guaranteed to have a Monday or Friday off.
Ive little interest having any other day off tbh unless I’ve got something on.
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Lol tell that my fkn boss ..
>Seven companies provided data on revenue and of those, six reported monthly revenue growth, with one seeing a decline.
Most businesses see revenue growth so that in itself is meaningless.
>The results show 100% of the employees involved in the trial said they would prefer a reduced work schedule.
Get a load of this, people dont want to work as much. Riveting finding.
>”As an SME, it was difficult for us to match the salaries paid to recruiters by large multinationals such as big tech, so we were looking for a non-monetary, transformative benefit to provide a solution,” said co-founder Barry Prost.
This is the greatest benefit to having a 4 day week for the company. These companies in the trial are probably tiny companies who would struggle to pay staff the wages others do. However, that benefit would disappear if everyone worked 4 days. I just checked one of the companies, Codema. They only have 20 staff.
I remember on an all-staff call earlier this year the question of a four-day week was put to one of the executives. “You want 5 days pay for 4 days work? ” was his response.
No you cheeky bastard we are salaried for a 36 hour week and those 36 hours can be completed over four days.
Our place trialled a 4 day week recently. 35 hours a week (down from 37.5-39 hours) and the vast majority were happy. The difference in wages was negligible for the extra 3 or 4 hours a week being there and travelling etc. It lasted 2 weeks due to reducing our lead times for orders.
Article doesn’t mention if it’s cramming 5 days into 4 or an actual 4 day working week.
If it was 4 days but the same hours as a five day week,I don’t think I’d be bothered unless I was guaranteed to have a Monday or Friday off.
Ive little interest having any other day off tbh unless I’ve got something on.