The world's largest trial of a 4-day, 100% pay, work week has begun in the UK. In 2020, this WIREDUK feature pointed out all the reasons the 4-day work week might actually be the best thing for companies and employees alike:
argues that the government could part-subsidise a five year plan to allow the UK’s entire workforce to transition permanently to a four day week.
The big difference is that cutting a day of work to stimulate the economy is no longer a gamble. We have proof that a four day week works. Germany rolled out the Kurzarbeit, literally ‘short work’, scheme during the 2008 financial crash to mitigate mass unemployment, subsidising a reallocation of labour. The government part-paid the salaries of millions of people during the financial downturn to avoid mass unemployment — and has turned to the same scheme again during the coronavirus crisis.
“My belief is that more enlightened employers should look towards the German model,” says Barnes. “This is an opportunity to change how people work, but also an opportunity to think about up-skilling and governments to share the burden to keep jobs there.” from Henley Business School found last year. More importantly, it ended up saving companies that offer it £92bn a year. The research also found that this working style increased overall quality of life for employees, with over three quarters of implementing businesses saying staff were happier, less stressed and took fewer days off ill .
“Whether businesses right now are doing it for the right reason is obviously the biggest question. It looks great, having the four day week, but a salary pay cut right now isn’t the best for everybody, so you can get backlash,” she says. There are trust issues as well, when an employee is being forced to work four days after they had already asked for flexible working in the past and were rebuffed.
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