The 4-day work week in the UK is here again
And this time it is no longer a pilot pilot
If you come, you won't go, always work 4 days a week!!
I almost cried with joy (what does it have to do with neck length...)
This time, 100 companies joined
There is also a company directly called
Four Day Week LTD ...
What are you not short of??
Neck length, neck length, this is coming!!
In the week beginning Monday, November 28, bosses from 100 companies in the UK officially signed up to become "4 Days UK Certified Employers", saying that the company will benefit from the new working model. These companies have a combined workforce of more than 2,600~
The company said: the salary is not reduced at all, all kinds of benefits will be received! Employees are required to maintain 100% productivity during 80% of working hours~ All in all, the Chosen Goose is you!!
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The two largest companies that have signed up are Atom Bank and global marketing company Awin – both of which employ around 450 people in the UK.
Adam Ross, CEO of Awin, said the adoption of the 4-day work week was "one of the most transformative initiatives we've seen in the company's history." Over the past year and a half, the health and well-being of our employees has improved tremendously, as well as customer service and relationships, as well as talent relationships, and all in all, the whole company has become significantly happier!
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These companies also believe in a very unified philosophy: anyway, the 5-day work day is a legacy of the early economic era, and sooner or later it will have to be solved! And the four-day work week will push more companies to be more productive, which means they can create the same output, but in less time~
*Previous trials of the 4-day work system in France found that people work the same even if they miss one day~
What is the definition of a 4-day workday?
Essentially, a 4-day work week allows employees to work fewer days, but the working hours should be constant. For example, if an employee previously worked 8 hours a day and 5 days a week, he would work about 10 hours a day after shortening to 4 days. Since the contract hours are still met, employees are free to schedule an additional day per week while maintaining the same wage level.
There are 3 small holidays every week
You can even travel far away at any time!!
This concept is known as the 100:80:100 model because workers will receive 100% of their wages 80% of the time, but they must also agree to pay 100% productivity within this range.
There are poll results on the 4-day work day image source You.GOV
Joe O'Connor, head of the Global 4-Day Pilot Campaign, is pleased that more and more businesses are moving to productivity-focused strategies that enable them to work fewer hours without reducing wages. 2022 will be the new future opened up by the 4-day workday.
Although the "4-day workday" challenges the current 5-day work model, its main purpose is to help companies shift from simply measuring the time people work to focusing more on efficiency and output, and also balancing the work and life time of employees.
The UK pilot will be conducted alongside other trials in the US, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
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The UK pilot will be conducted alongside other trials in the US, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
In fact, Scottish friends may already have some experience - a few years ago, Scotland's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, promised a better work-life balance in her election manifesto, and the Scottish and Spanish governments have subsequently launched four-day experiments. It is said that several prominent companies, including Morrisons, are now offering this option to their employees at their headquarters.
So which UK companies are currently joining the 4-day-a-week work programme?
List of companies to work for 4 days a week
4 WORKING DAYS PER WEEK
Feedback on the "4-day work system" pilot in the middle of the year
The UK is also currently running the world's largest 4-day pilot scheme (from June to the end of the year), involving more than 3,300 employees from 70 companies and charities, including researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, Boston College and think tank Autonomy. Some companies even pay £10,000 to join the pilot...
After all, there is now widespread burnout about careers, and companies are willing to join the program in order to retain the talent who have quit their jobs.
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A range of businesses and charities involved in the pilot include the Royal Society of Biology, London-based hipster brewery Pressure Drop, Southampton-based computer game developer Yo Telecom, a Manchester-based medical device company and a fish and chip shop in Norfolk.
In the initial survey, nearly half (46%) said there was no increase in productivity, while about a third (34%) reported only a "slight" improvement and only 15% had a "significant" improvement. On a scale of 1-5 that indicates how smooth the transition was (1 is very smooth), 22% of companies did not rate the transition to a shorter week as 1 or 2.
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Then in September, the mid-trial survey, 88 percent of companies said that the four-day work week was very positive for their businesses during the pilot phase.
Some 95% of companies say productivity has at least remained the same or even increased since the introduction of the new work regime. Nearly 90% of companies said they would continue with the 4-day workday program after the trial period ended.
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Of course, there are some who regret joining the program — Samantha Losey, the owner of communications company Unity, says they won't necessarily continue the four-day workday.
* "Whether you can work 4 days depends on whether this is a mature enough business, and not having a 4-day work week elsewhere in the world makes it challenging." We've had a lot of bumps in the process of change, and not all of us will double the quality of our work, but if ultimately our team gets better and our culture becomes more positive, the bumps in the road are worth it exponentially. ”
Which countries are also implementing a 4-day workday?
In fact, the "4-day week" trial has been popular around the world at the beginning of this year~ Similar trials have also begun in Spain, Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Canada this year.
Many of them have changed their work systems due to the pandemic.
Caleb Hulme-Moir, who owns Mana Communications, a New Zealand-based PR firm, set a nine-day bi-week schedule in early 2020 and cut wages by 20%, initially to slow down work and retain talent during the pandemic.
Then the business quickly rebounded, and people retained the system of 2 weeks and 9 days while restoring full wages, and it is precisely because of this system that people who apply to work at the company can be said to be as long as the queue when Heytea first opened!
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In February this year, Belgium began to implement the "four-day week", and also simply and rudely gave the right to ignore the boss directly after work. This is due to the high level of job resentment among Belgians in the 20 to 64 age group, with only 71% of Belgians in the 20 to 64 age group working, a full 10% less than neighbouring countries such as the Netherlands and Germany.
Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Croo hopes that through this experiment, the local extremely rigid labor market will be increased, so that employees can work more energetic and energetic~
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Iceland is a big winner in the "4-day week".
As early as 2015-2019, Iceland piloted the world's largest 35-36-hour workweek trial (cut from the traditional 40-hour shift), but without any wage cuts, with around 2,500 staff members participating at the time. The researchers found that participants experienced less stress and burnout, a huge improvement in work-life balance, and a skyrocketing level of happiness!
The study has also led to significant changes in Iceland, with nearly 90 percent of the working population now working fewer hours and those who have not reduced their hours enjoying other additional conveniences and benefits.
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Japan is another success story~
Microsoft began experimenting with 4-day work in the summer of 2019, while cutting meeting time in half. As a result, the company not only saw a 23% drop in electricity bills, but also a 40% increase in sales per employee compared to 2018... It turns out that the 4-day work week is a shortcut to the pinnacle of life??!!
It is reported that this trial is only one of the reasons that led the Japanese government to recommend that companies switch to a four-day work day in its 2021 annual economic policy guidelines; In addition, Japan also said that they believe it will help improve the work-life balance of employees and make everyone happy every day!
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Of course, not every country is as lucky as Iceland and Japan: Sweden tested a full-pay four-day workweek in 2015, with mixed results.
It is reported that the proposal at that time was to try to replace the 8-hour work day with a 6-hour working day without losing wages, but the official believed that the cost of implementing this practice on a large scale was too high, and hospitals, automakers, multinational companies, etc. said that if such a regulation was implemented, it would be a large expense to hire additional staff.
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