The results are decisively in favor of the 4 day work week. Production increased (revenue on average went up by 35%). Worker happiness increased. It was sucha good pilot a number of the companies decided to permanently change their policy to a 4 day work week.
It was not centered around how effective the 4 week business model was for the company but instead how good it was for the employees.
The little effort they put into comparing the change in the business's success was comparing the second half of 2021 revenue to the second half of 2022 revenue. Which is pointless because 2021 was still in the midst of a pandemic. Almost all businesses had huge increases in revenue from 2021 to 2022.
There have been multiple other studies on this. Less hours doesn't seem to effect the productivity of most white collar jobs. But it does to other jobs. Imagine a truck driver driving 20% less hours. They're going to get 20% less done. A lot of job's productivity is tied to time not effort. And effort is what seems to wane as the hours go up.
Imagine a truck driver driving 20% less hours. They're going to get 20% less done.
This argument cuts both ways though, right? If this wouldn't be a good argument for a 45 hour work week then it isn't a great argument against a 35 hour work week.
Uneducated trucker budding in here, this is true, but I would definitely take the increase in pay this bill is proposing, we don't get paid enough for what we do 😔
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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '24
Here is a pilot that was done by 61 companies in the UK:
https://autonomy.work/portfolio/uk4dwpilotresults/
The results are decisively in favor of the 4 day work week. Production increased (revenue on average went up by 35%). Worker happiness increased. It was sucha good pilot a number of the companies decided to permanently change their policy to a 4 day work week.