Employees from a wide range of businesses and charities are expected to take part in the scheme, which will run initially from June to December, including the Royal Society of Biology, the London-based brewing company Pressure Drop, a Manchester-based medical devices firm, and a fish and chip shop in Norfolk.
It comes as the push for companies to adopt a shorter working week – crucially with no loss of pay while aiming for higher productivity – gains momentum as a way of improving working conditions.
I live in Sweden and have never hard of any company doing a four day week. The closest I get is one of my first jobs which had a 37.5 hour week (rather than the customary 40 hours) but again, spread out over five days.
That said, some of the last few weeks at the time of writing have in practise turned out to be four day weeks due to public holidays. Could this be what causes the confusion?
I live in the Netherlands, here it depends completely on the "cao" that is used within the 'branche' (type of industry). There are industries that use 32, 36, or 40 hours as full-time work weeks. Most goverment jobs for example are either 36 or 32 hours.
I work in SWE, which is almost always 40 hours in my experience YMMV.
I've worked in offices before (engineering, architectural) that have one day a week where they don't answer the phone except for emergencies, and lets say friday is 'catch up and do paperwork day'.
Externally it might seem like 4 days a week, but its actually 5 with one where you can't reach them.
But do they get paid for 5 days? Are their pension contributions the same as for someone who worked 5 days? What about their holiday allowance(s)? Their bonuses?
As with every time these tests are run, I would like to see results longer than the initial few months honeymoon when people's productivity is being closely monitored
I want to know if 1-2 years down the line, the productivity is still running at 125%
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Employees from a wide range of businesses and charities are expected to take part in the scheme, which will run initially from June to December, including the Royal Society of Biology, the London-based brewing company Pressure Drop, a Manchester-based medical devices firm, and a fish and chip shop in Norfolk.
It comes as the push for companies to adopt a shorter working week – crucially with no loss of pay while aiming for higher productivity – gains momentum as a way of improving working conditions.