I can’t see most workplaces doing this, especially large corporates and banks. They’re too set in their ways.
Do they offer the same number of days annual leave?
How far down the list of companies presented do I have to scroll, before I find one (or at least more than a few) that is in any way representative of the type of company most of us work for?
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FFS one of the companies listed is called Hear Focus, and the homepage has a message from September saying it’s ceased trading!!
My company is among them!
Naturally, being the money grubbing bastards that they are, they are also considering increasing our work hours and removing sick pay.
So you take the good with the bad.
I’m vevy supportive of the four day work week whilst not negatively effecting wages. I’ll give regular people time to properly de-stress, spend time with their families, pursue hobbies whilst at the same time not result in a loss of income. Hopefully this will be the norm in a couple of decades.
I cant see any major disadvantage here. Automation and other technological advances for the last century means the average person’s economy output has massively increased, why not then change how long the average workers needs to be at work?
Happy, healthy workers are more productive, and not all jobs really require 37.5 hours a week of actual work to complete. The sooner companies realise this the better. Technology saves us so much time but we are clinging to practices of a bygone era for no real reason, one that actively makes us less productive than similar economies with laxer attitudes towards work.
Cries in healthcare
I’m b4 “but it doesn’t work for my job so nobody should be able to do it!”
Work for an international US bank based in Uk. Absolutely no chance of them ever offering us this. Having to work on Boxing Day because “the markets are open so we are open”
No danger they’ll offer this to us. Some of us got a 3% rise which whilst appreciated, is still a paycut in real terms. Meanwhile the CEO is on 20m per year plus dividends.
Wish there were unions within the private sector too. Can join one but the representation within financial services are low.
It’s a shit sector to work in unless you’re on Wall Street or a CEO. Us minions get fucked over all the time.
I was worried that this would be 4 10 hour days, but I’m glad it isn’t, it’s an actual reduction in hours
I work in telecoms and my firm do a 9 day fortnight. No reduction in salary or holiday allowance.
Love the idea but this seems so fake. I cannot recognize even one company and one is called Four Day Week. Smh.
I hope i live to see that day construction industry does this
Been doing a 4 day week for 5 months now. Its the way to go.
To me, this seems like the new Work From Home, especially given the fact that the company I work for is using the same arguments against a 4 day week that it gave against WFH pre covid.
One of those companies is a job board for 4 day a week companies. Checking out the salaries for London posting and most were in the 25-30k range with a couple hitting 50k. Overall it seemed to me that these companies are not paying much anyway.
Too many people have the impression that this country is full of workshy people who sit doing nothing all day but ignore things like this as the obvious solutions because they would rather the solution involved whipping people to work harder.
Having one more day back to yourself would make such a difference to your mood, particularly in a time when all the costs are shooting up and pay rises are very unlikely to keep up.
Though the sad bit is that for many people that would just mean sitting at home cold and bored since they have no money.
I honestly wish everyone would do this. This is brilliant. Why span a 40 hour work week in 5 days if you can do it in 4? There’s no difference in hours worked and no loss of pay.
The massive plus is that people never have time to do anything, this will give people a whole DAY to run errands, hobbies and home projects. I would HAPPILY work 10-12 hours a day for 4 days if it means I have 3 days off. That extra day of rest WILL improve productivity in most people because You are so excited that you have an extra day off that on Sunday no one will complain “Ugh I cannot believe the weekend is already over”
I swear if I am ever fortunate enough to have a healthy company I will immediately adapt this. It makes your employees happy and happy employees are usually productive and that means the boss is happy and automatically you have a better company in many aspects.
I hope people that own large companies ( usually aged from 35-70 ) because people don’t like change, even if it is for the better. Especially the older generation. If its not their way its the highway. So idiotic.
I’m able to do a four day week with no loss of pay, which sounds great – the catch is I still need to do the same amount of hours per week. I’d rather work 5 shorter days, so I haven’t opted in.
It’s not as good as you think, they’re just increasing the daily hours to 10hours per day so everyone’s still working a 40 hour week, our socialist neighbours are doing 30 hour weeks on the same pay and getting a much better work to life balance.
Can we get HMRC to sign up to pay all the self-employed for that day too?
If I add up all my time where I’m actually working, I’m probably already on a three day working week.
When I was at college in the early 80s one of our Horticulture lectures said we will soon be on a 4 day week and we will have more time to take leisure time.
Sadly we have gone backwards not forwards on how our lives are with Neo Liberal captitiliism squeezing as much out of us as they can, we have even not got a new normal as predicted in the pandemic but more of the same in steroids and it’s about time that a 4 day week should be the norm as it’s the answer to a happier population and better productivity.
Of course we need decent wages for all as well.
Imagine actually being motivated to work.
This is a good thing for mental wellbeing.
Let me guess they weren’t 100 corporate businesses operating 7 days a week and offering minimum wage were they. Have fun with your 4 day week I guess middle class.
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Some of the company names: https://www.4dayweek.co.uk/employers
I can’t see most workplaces doing this, especially large corporates and banks. They’re too set in their ways.
Do they offer the same number of days annual leave?
How far down the list of companies presented do I have to scroll, before I find one (or at least more than a few) that is in any way representative of the type of company most of us work for?
Edit
FFS one of the companies listed is called Hear Focus, and the homepage has a message from September saying it’s ceased trading!!
My company is among them!
Naturally, being the money grubbing bastards that they are, they are also considering increasing our work hours and removing sick pay.
So you take the good with the bad.
I’m vevy supportive of the four day work week whilst not negatively effecting wages. I’ll give regular people time to properly de-stress, spend time with their families, pursue hobbies whilst at the same time not result in a loss of income. Hopefully this will be the norm in a couple of decades.
I cant see any major disadvantage here. Automation and other technological advances for the last century means the average person’s economy output has massively increased, why not then change how long the average workers needs to be at work?
Happy, healthy workers are more productive, and not all jobs really require 37.5 hours a week of actual work to complete. The sooner companies realise this the better. Technology saves us so much time but we are clinging to practices of a bygone era for no real reason, one that actively makes us less productive than similar economies with laxer attitudes towards work.
Cries in healthcare
I’m b4 “but it doesn’t work for my job so nobody should be able to do it!”
Work for an international US bank based in Uk. Absolutely no chance of them ever offering us this. Having to work on Boxing Day because “the markets are open so we are open”
No danger they’ll offer this to us. Some of us got a 3% rise which whilst appreciated, is still a paycut in real terms. Meanwhile the CEO is on 20m per year plus dividends.
Wish there were unions within the private sector too. Can join one but the representation within financial services are low.
It’s a shit sector to work in unless you’re on Wall Street or a CEO. Us minions get fucked over all the time.
I was worried that this would be 4 10 hour days, but I’m glad it isn’t, it’s an actual reduction in hours
I work in telecoms and my firm do a 9 day fortnight. No reduction in salary or holiday allowance.
Love the idea but this seems so fake. I cannot recognize even one company and one is called Four Day Week. Smh.
I hope i live to see that day construction industry does this
Been doing a 4 day week for 5 months now. Its the way to go.
To me, this seems like the new Work From Home, especially given the fact that the company I work for is using the same arguments against a 4 day week that it gave against WFH pre covid.
One of those companies is a job board for 4 day a week companies. Checking out the salaries for London posting and most were in the 25-30k range with a couple hitting 50k. Overall it seemed to me that these companies are not paying much anyway.
Too many people have the impression that this country is full of workshy people who sit doing nothing all day but ignore things like this as the obvious solutions because they would rather the solution involved whipping people to work harder.
Having one more day back to yourself would make such a difference to your mood, particularly in a time when all the costs are shooting up and pay rises are very unlikely to keep up.
Though the sad bit is that for many people that would just mean sitting at home cold and bored since they have no money.
I honestly wish everyone would do this. This is brilliant. Why span a 40 hour work week in 5 days if you can do it in 4? There’s no difference in hours worked and no loss of pay.
The massive plus is that people never have time to do anything, this will give people a whole DAY to run errands, hobbies and home projects. I would HAPPILY work 10-12 hours a day for 4 days if it means I have 3 days off. That extra day of rest WILL improve productivity in most people because You are so excited that you have an extra day off that on Sunday no one will complain “Ugh I cannot believe the weekend is already over”
I swear if I am ever fortunate enough to have a healthy company I will immediately adapt this. It makes your employees happy and happy employees are usually productive and that means the boss is happy and automatically you have a better company in many aspects.
I hope people that own large companies ( usually aged from 35-70 ) because people don’t like change, even if it is for the better. Especially the older generation. If its not their way its the highway. So idiotic.
I’m able to do a four day week with no loss of pay, which sounds great – the catch is I still need to do the same amount of hours per week. I’d rather work 5 shorter days, so I haven’t opted in.
It’s not as good as you think, they’re just increasing the daily hours to 10hours per day so everyone’s still working a 40 hour week, our socialist neighbours are doing 30 hour weeks on the same pay and getting a much better work to life balance.
Can we get HMRC to sign up to pay all the self-employed for that day too?
If I add up all my time where I’m actually working, I’m probably already on a three day working week.
When I was at college in the early 80s one of our Horticulture lectures said we will soon be on a 4 day week and we will have more time to take leisure time.
Sadly we have gone backwards not forwards on how our lives are with Neo Liberal captitiliism squeezing as much out of us as they can, we have even not got a new normal as predicted in the pandemic but more of the same in steroids and it’s about time that a 4 day week should be the norm as it’s the answer to a happier population and better productivity.
Of course we need decent wages for all as well.
Imagine actually being motivated to work.
This is a good thing for mental wellbeing.
Let me guess they weren’t 100 corporate businesses operating 7 days a week and offering minimum wage were they. Have fun with your 4 day week I guess middle class.