It’s one of the main challenges in moving to the four-day week: ensuring that because the hours are shorter, employees don’t see an increase in intensity or pace. For this, it is necessary to know how to reorganize the work and the distribution of tasks. In June, Joe O’Connor, one of the biggest activists for the four-day week and then chief executive of 4-Day Week Global, a consultancy that helps companies adopt the model, warned in a statement to the Observer: “The introduction of the four-day week in a place with major shortcomings is likely to fail.????????
Earlier this year, the organization launched the first globally coordinated pilot projects in companies with workers based primarily in the US, Ireland and Australia, but also some in New Zealand, the UK and Canada. The final report, carried out by a team of researchers from the universities of Boston, Cambridge and Dublin for the now-known 4-Day Week Global, speaks of a “resounding success in practically all dimensions”, with companies “extremely satisfied” in terms of performance or productivity.
How to spend 4 days working and 3 days off, and the companies that are already doing it (or moving towards it)
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Source: Observadora
