Four-day work week is simply ‘more productive’
One of the world’s biggest trials of a four-day working week has shown that a shorter schedule helps employees and companies stay more productive. “In terms of employees, their mental health improved, they got better sleep, they got less burnt out,” Cambridge University’s Professor Brendan Burchell told AFP. “And we got lots of very happy people—people really enjoyed it; they found it such a reward to have three day weekends instead of two day weekends.” Tyler Grange, a UK environmental consultancy, was among the 18 firms to adopt the four-day week permanently after taking part. “My experience has only been really, really positive—you can see it in people day-to-day at work, that they’re more energized at work,” Tyler Grange client director Nathan Jenkinson told AFP. Employees “come into work at the start of the week on a Monday, having had three days rest, and they’re feeling much more positive about work and got a lot more energy”.
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