How these companies cracked the four-day work week
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- Опубліковано 13 чер 2024
- A growing number of businesses are embracing the four-day work week - an idea that was considered radical just a few years ago.
The Covid-19 pandemic appears to have sped up the adoption of a shorter working week, with workers increasingly demanding better work-life balance.
So, what can we learn from the companies and workers that have taken the plunge?
Watch the video above to learn how three companies have adopted the four-day work week and what it means for their employees.
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If schools opted this method then it'll be very helpful for students who wants to learn things from outside of classrooms
depends, do you want to stay at school for more than 10 hours a day?
Agreed!
I think that only works when parents are motivated and create an environment where kids can be productive on the fifth day.
We pretty much have that now in Pennsylvania. 60% of school weeks are less than 5 days because of holidays and in service days etc.
That's how the world is supposed to be. A balanced professional / personal life schedule, where we continually enjoy life each week, have time to take care of our health, to enjoy our loved ones, do sport... instead of waiting desesperatly for the 2 holidays weeks per year, or for the retirement time, when we'll be too old and sick to enjoy anything.
The 4 days work week should become the norm for both white and blue collar jobs, in Europe and then all around the globe. And of course, during this 4 days, the deal is that w, workers, are going to give our best.
Here in India, we even struggle to get, 5 days work in a week. And the psychological trauma we go through is lot. Lets make 4 day work a week real and spread across the globe.
Bruh ....I don't want a salary cut
Govt is pushing a 4 day week thing now...
With 12 hour shifts and pay cut .... great!!
@@abhishekdev258 Watch the segment again. There was no pay cut.
@@joshuahjoseph6738 I saying that in future companies may do thar
@@abhishekdev258 I mean that could do that and most evil companies will, but if you are finishing the same tasks that took 5 days to complete in 4 days, the pay should be the same or even higher, because the efficiency is present. Of course, this would be a hard bargain for companies and the world to accept, due to the 5 day work week being the status quo since henry ford....
I only work 3 days a week. Life is too short for those soul-sucking jobs.
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Whats your work!
I work at kroger fullmiment and we are going to start working 5am to3pm Sunday through Wednesday
quality of work matters more than quantity
a concept something those against work from home and 4 day week don't understand
sadly we will probably need to wait for the older generation to get out of decision making positions in the company before we shift over to 4 day work weeks..
depends on the business. Not all business can be done like this in 4 days a week, especially logistics, manufacturing, customer services
@@saltymonke3682 don’t those already work on a shift system?
@@gamlash95 24 hours shift with 8 hours as divider, not 10
@@gamlash95 even not all companies who can run 4 days workdays a week can implement it for all levels, managerial roles with 5 days or more responsibility can't fo that. Otherwise there will be more people to be hired and for the same roles which is redundant in terms of chain of command
I have been saying the work week needs to be 4 days ever since I started working. With only 2 days off now all I do is work all weekend (errands and housework) and Monday I go back to work feeling exhausted. If I take a day out of the weekend to relax or go out nothing is ready to go for Monday. I hope more and more companies will start looking into this model. We are tired of being tired all the time.
I agree. It's the same for me as well. Sometimes I have to work 6 days so in that 1 day off I have to try to squeeze everything else like housework and errands into that 1 day off. I have no objection to working 4 days for 10 hours per day.
You need to hire yourself a maid
1820 = 7 day work week
1920 = 6 day work week
1950 = 5 day work week
2022 = 4 day work week
2052 = 3 day work week
2062 = 2 day work week
2072 = 1 day work week
2080 = permanent leisure, robots will do everything for us
Then Wall-E
Lol
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Please keep in my mind that technology has adavanced 100x over since the 1950s
2100 = 7 days work week for your new robot master
I work in the medical device industry and we embrace the 4 day work week. We have half of the employees work 10 hours, Monday - Thursday and the other half working 10 hours, Tuesday - Friday. So every work day, people are in the office. Work is not pushed to the side during our 4 day weekend because we all share the work load since there is always someone there on any given work day. It keeps morale up and I feel as if we work harder knowing we have a long weekend to rest up. Coming back from our 4 day weekend, I feel refreshed and less stressed and ready for the work load ahead.
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That's how the world is supposed to be. A balanced professional / personal life schedule, where we continually enjoy life each week, have time to take care of our health, to enjoy our loved ones, do sport... instead of waiting desesperatly for the 2 holidays weeks per year, or for the retirement time, when we'll be too old and sick to enjoy anything.
The 4 days work week should become the norm for both white and blue collar jobs, in Europe and then all around the globe. And of course, during this 4 days, the deal is that w, workers, are going to give our best.
Tobi, I think this model would work, especially for our business Software Development. We are a very Customer centric company and I don't in any way see the model that Joe O'connor is pushing will work for us. He wants to cut hours, expect the same throughput and pay in 35 hours? so, what happens to Customer support on Fridays? I am a Senior Test Analyst and based on Sprint scheduling all of this could be redistributed, but I (we) always have the Customer in mind and in your model Tobi, it makes sense splitting the week vs. shutting the whole company down on a Friday.
It's supposed to be 32 hours a week not 40 in 4 days
@@Distress. I am ok with both of them, as long as I have a 3 day week end
Should do a video on companies that has embraced remote work and their workers a year later to see how they're doing
We highlighted one such case study in our video on remote work! Get your work from home setup right | CNBC Reports
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I love my 4 day work week job. The extra day off makes a mini vacation.
It makes perfect sense for everyone in the digital chain..... Manufacturers and logistics have no choice.
And customer service
They do have a choice
Have more people?
@@TomNook. As noted by one of our interviewees in the video (Dean Tempest, Big Potato Games) - flexibility and understanding is important! 00:02:12: "(The customer service team) work on a different pattern and they work on contract hours, so they have a slightly different setup to some of the full-time employees. We need to make sure that our customers have always got customer service representation, so that's just never going to work with a four-day week."
@@pradiptahafid Wow that’s genius why hasn’t anyone thought of that!?
I was with this until they said 10 hours a day. I'm exhausted after 8 hrs, can't imagine 10!
The five day, forty work week is a relic ok’d the industrial revolution and at that time it was looked down upon by the factory owners - as we are now is digital based economy based on services, the unit of work output has changed - organizations must change and adapt.
Redefining 35 hours a week as full-time workers would be a long term solution to this 4 days work week.
10 hour days in a compressed 4-day workweek is exhausting…
Do NOT give a S#!T what a company says, how it cracks or requires approval for a 3-4 day work week.
People/working class and society ought to dictate the standard work-life balance and corporations are the one that have to adjust and adapt to society or die.
3-4 day work week is NOT at the suggestions and benefit of corporations and their shareholders, it is and SHOULD be recognized as the suggestion and shaping by the working class and society in general.
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Great to hear more employers are doing this. Sound like there was a divide at big potato with employees who work for them in the head office getting 4 day weeks and those that worked customer service which is sad to hear :(
Make sense for creative industries, but for operational, manufacturing and service that is not going to work, unless it cuts significantly into the margin of the company and forced to consider explorer other labor markets.
I agree, I’m a factory worker and I’m not sure that would work. It would be nice tho.
Other industries can rotate which day of the week groups of employees get off so they are operational all week. Healthcare already does this.
And maybe for small business there are subsidies to make this possible, but for large corporations, so what if there is a little less profit? They are still making a profit and let’s be quite honest, for the majority of those large manufacturing and even service industry conglomerates, this just means a little less in perks for their VPs and Csuite executives, oh and slightly less dividends for their shareholders. I promise you, they will learn to live on slightly less. At time some of that profit went to improving the lives of their employees on the ground and in the daily grind. We just have to think out of the box to make it work for each industry.
We have factories here in New Zealand that run 4 day weeks.... most of them do.
It's 4 days on 4 days off, and 2 shifts of people alternating 😉 or 4 on 3 off is not uncommon..
A run a small manufacturing company in NZ and my husband and I work full time and our 2 staff work 4 days, and have a different day off each.. so we have someone on every day of the week.
It works fine 💪
We started that way and know no different.
Life balance is important 👌
Some industries, sure it won't work. But the service industry?? There's already not enough people to fill those jobs so something will have to change.
So many restaurants weren't able to keep their employees during and post pandemic that they have to change their business hours and move to a 4 day work week model
I’m so excited for this.
Let's get real. Everybody wants a 0 day work week.
Wrong
People who do nothing all day aren't happy either, there's a balance.
Nah people need things to do for happiness, just have less days doing it.
It's an age old thought that more hours = more productivity. But that takes away the human element of the equation (quoting 'Sully' here!).
A more rested human being become more efficient per hour. Imagine working a 16 hour shift. You're not going to be very efficient at the tail end of that shift!
I'm a teacher who works 4 1/2 days a week, due to local customs. It has made a massive difference to work/life balance, and students are learning more as well! Students have more time absorbing the information they learn in classes, and can do more things outside of the classroom.
We've done it for years and had lots of success!
with populations rising faster and faster and stress levels being so high this idea is actually a great idea.
Yeah why don't we just have a zero Day work week
I worked 4-day weeks for a couple years and it was amazing. Felt way happier. Now that I'm back to 5 days, my happiness has decreased am I'm in a kind of fatigue haze most of the time. I'll be going back to 4 days as soon as I can.
You people are very lazy I work seven days a week most of my life
I was at a company that reduced the workload to 4 days but we also had a salary cut.
Obviously
I would take it. I can cut my expenses that mostly goes on food(take outs n restorants). Our well being is more important than expenses we are having...
What is the article he read from New Zealand? I would love to show it to some important people :D
3-4 days is the best for us and our families
You listed a lot of companies giving the trial a chance, but it seems only some of them decided to continue with 4 day work week, which is conveniently not mentioned.
I had 6 10's for years. Week ago I got 5 9's. I'm Soo happy. You guys are lucky to live in a developed world.
That's how the world is supposed to be. A balanced professional / personal life schedule, where we continually enjoy life each week, have time to take care of our health, to enjoy our loved ones, do sport... instead of waiting desesperatly for the 2 holidays weeks per year, or for the retirement time, when we'll be too old and sick to enjoy anything.
The 4 days work week should become the norm for both white and blue collar jobs, in Europe and then all around the globe. And of course, during this 4 days, the deal is that w, workers, are going to give our best.
Working 3 days one work and 4 days the next on a bi-weekly pay check feels like going on a mini vacation twice a month
How about the fail cases and disadvantages?
2:48 what does that mean "it levels itself out across the company"?
Can you make this happen in the U.S. please? My company is mostly great but they do have you do 40 hours but 6 days a week
We are even back to the old office 5 day setup and completely remove the hybrid setup. What a bummer. I got so tired easily and i cant even focus in work
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France has been doing the 4 1/2 day workweek for almost 30 years....
Random comment but the Irish guy with the patterned jacket and the patterned chair and then you put a pattern border around the video..oof that was hard on the eyes. Not so random comment this is a great video i live in Aotearoa New Zealand and my company doesn't do four day weeks because we're construction but they're flexible and honestly it makes the world of difference to not feel hemmed to a desk. Obvs there are some jobs you can't do that with but I'm still blown away by companies that don't offer flexibility for jobs that have clearly been able to function from home or a split role during COVID. Like, that's very last decade.
Nice video.
How do 4 day work week companies handle bank holidays during the four day work week schedule or does it become a 3 day work week?
Not all companies and sectors close on bank Holidays. E.g supermarkets and restaurants.
We just work it like a normal day and pay our staff extra and they keep their same schedule
Yes, most people work 5 to 7 days of week but do 4 days of work at work.
Anything can work if you want it to !
He doesn’t blink 😀
here in the states 4 day work weeks just mean 10 hour days but id take whatever i can get lol
I was excited until I realized this wasn't shot in America. Yea, the U.S would rather implode than have a four-day workweek. Hoping things change still.
But they are still work the same amount of hours.
So at the end of the day, it really doesn't matter.
Schools would have to be 4 days as well for parents working to make it work, other than that some could take mondays off some Fridays and nothing changes except for employees sanity.
Why would it matter? Kids can continue to go to school 5 days a week and allow their parents one day to get things done without worrying who’s with the kids or if the kids are entertained. That way, the two days off kids actually have, they can have their parents attention fully. Sounds like it would work well.
Ummm no, it would mean adults get a day where their kids are at school... nd they arent at work. Bliss. bless.
@@shannaelizabeth6531 Teacher, School staff, administration, school board will not like that they don't have a free day of . I would not want to see what I portrayed child actions when their is no adult. That kids will break the school rules knowing that their no supervision. This will be aslo an easy target for criminals to steal or take child. What if a natural disaster occurs that day? Those with a disability but kids don't know how to properly cared of themselves or others. How can kids get to school? Parents probably don't want to drive school. The only solution is to have children walk to school. The inventors to created Atonomus school bis or they liscenes for school buses or have to do it illegal. We knew it can be more of joy ride. Elementary students might get up on wrong places.
Problem- missing kids, death of children, increased crime rates , schools in mass destruction. Will mean school will be canceled until it fix. Those adults will illiterate students. We know child care will only be offered to kids who are normal from 0- 8 years of age.
I will say it is better to make school 4 day a week because we don't want to deal with mass destruction of schools. We can aslo raise inflation prices and lower down the trusting of kids.
@@alchapopapo Yeah,True but only if the teacher are working and their won't be teacher work because they are adults too. There unsupervised children that don't know what to and we should never leave kids unsupervised or things can go crazy.
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I don't know about a 4 day work week in jobs that require physical things to be done it probably works fine for office jobs where a vast amount of the results are not exactly tangible ..I know a guy that has a timer on his laptop and when it rings at 5 pm he hits save, closes the laptop and he never seems to have any deadlines to meet ..never seemed concerned about getting anything done ....he worked on one project for almost 2 months ...his job really doesn't seem necessary..it's almost like it's one of those things that's just for looks...like the company just pulled it out of the air to fill a gap or maybe they needed a certain number of employees to appease something I don't know it's just weird
i see.
Whatever it is - all of the additional 'day's work will be outsourced to emerging markets (India, Philippines etc.)
Dont make it mandetory, always have it as an option. Because if you make it a must it's exactly the same as a 5 days working envirorment.
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Eh, I’m ok with 4 day work weeks as long as the pay isn’t a pay cut 😁. Otherwise I’d rather keep my 5 day work weeks and unlimited PTO.
Raise the wages duh
India: 6 day work week with lowest pay 👌🏼🤙🏼
Defund the military and mail everyone a check for thier portion of the savings. Let Raytheon and the rest of them go bankrupt and fire that stooge lloyd Austin
Companies in the United States will still not do this you could empirically prove it to a T and they would still not do it. It's not about productivity it's that these people have weird control that dishes where they feel like they have to dominate other people's lives.
Amazon warehousing staff have always had 4 days a week. 4x10 though, not 4x8
4x10 seems too much.. They'd be completely drained during the 4 days.. Working 10 hrs, including maybe a 2 hr commute, showering, eating etc and sleep, that leaves maybe 2 hrs to relax a day? I feel like companies should look into 4x8 or if they cant then maybe shorten to 5x6.5
@@gamlash95 Yep, it is tiring but doable. Done it myself for 3 months for 3 years during Xmas period. Sometimes we had overtime, where it was 5x12.
@@gamlash95 I'm not sure but new policy here in india is planning for 4 days 12hr shift.
Not sure if they are gonna launch it.
we're currently trying to do the same 4x10, but cant be sure about the rest of the days of the week ecause we have to run 7 days a week.
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I am sincerely not supporting the 4 day work week.
Rather I d have 5 days with 6-7 hours instead of 8 hours per day.
Additionally there shall be much broader use of home office as an option...
Yeah since its no work no pay
@@mrclayteevee Yes, pay needs to increase
I'm stil agree with both, either 4x8 work week or 5x6 work week
I really dont understand the 4 day concept...? So people can only trade on stock exchange during 4 days....? It really does not make any economic sense. Better to have sunday to thursday working days. Make friday and saturday as rest day
or 7 days a week with 2 kind of groups of people, 4 days and 3 days workdays
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the pandemic has brought unfuckable nonsense of meetings until after office hours and weekends in our company.
Four day work weeks work period I work one and they do work
What kind of job do you have?
@@witzelasper2821 data entry
@@nitemare1525 interesting...do you do a 32 hour week ....I don't know if I could do data entry I'm more of a physical labor person I like to move around ...do outside work ...things that keep me more active..as somebody with arthritis and tight muscles being very active is important ...and doing a 32 hour week would really take a bite out of my paycheck
@@witzelasper2821 naw I work 4 days a week 10 hours a day
I hope your wages are fair enough to survive!
maybe in tech but this will never fly in consulting or banking
The three companies featured here are pretty unique in that the work can be done from anywhere. How about looking at restaurants and grocery store? See what their owners think? If you are going to implement 4 day week, they will have to hire extra staff, which means cost will go up. So are customers willing to pay more? Doubt it.
Some jobs like graphic design or coding can easily fit any work model as it’s depends solely on you completing the task by the deadline. Does not matter how many hours you put in. Others, usually blue collar work requires a fixed set of time, so this may not be an option. Think of a diner that’s opened for 5 days. How will they switch to a 4-day work week for their employees, while running for 5 days? Either you increase your headcount, results in cost increase; Reduce the number of days the diner is open, results in lesser profit; Implement shift with existing headcount, results in likely slower service and longer working hours for employees.
It will work out for everyone alright so what if they hire more
@@Nick84525 hiring more will result in higher cost, which mean businesses will have to raise the product cost or salaries of staff will be cut to accommodate the new hires to maintain the same profit level. Not saying it’s right, just what might happen.
Eh, no response ah???Let's see who want to become Boss for these 2-4yrs... We will bring in Europe Workfare also.... Make sure all life time medical FREE....
I don't want to work, to be honest.
Four days at 10 hours each day!
Or 9 as I hate 40 hr work weeks
Meanwhile, in my country a survey has shown that around 70% of the population use their free time to find extra work in order to add to their income.
I work around 60 hours a week....I'm not gonna get ahead on a four day work week....my eighteen year daughter works 50 hours a week ....work harder than everyone around you and you ll definitely get ahead...
Yeh, in singapore workers are kings and queens!!!🎉🎉🎉😊😊😊ha...,we=workers will make sure bosses go bankruptcy....
Make 1 day a year then.
Imaging the healthcare system only works at full capacity for four days a week. Since I have to go to the emergency department if I was seeking medical attention over the weekend.
Emergency service workers rotate shifts between 3-4 days a week already lol. Other critical services and customer service can do this: some workers work Mon-Thurs, others work Tues-Fri.
@@vulpixelful I was about to say the same thing. I think people are making this harder than it should be. Businesses can still keep their same hours (or similar ones) and just work the workers in 4 day shifts. Businesses should stop hiring the bare amount/skeleton crew and at least hire 1 additional person per shift. They’re being cheap and it’s making life harder for everyone. My job runs on the skeleton crew model. There are only 4 full time workers and 1 part timer worker on staff. On the weekend, only 2 of us work the entire day. You can’t call off on weekends because there is no coverage and throughout the week if something happens and 2 people can’t come in, you have 2.5 people doing the job of 4.5 people. With the past 2 years you can guess how many times our super small staff has been understaffed. But all of that could change if they simply hired another full time staff member. And I don’t work for a small company either.
wont work for everyone even in the same company who needs to run 24/7
Lol my dad worked 4 days for 20 years and never bought a house and has no retirement
Says more about him than the concept
@@djwoosie98 true. I just think of people who want a 4 day week as losers
@@Ryan.zelenski this makes no sense. Why would this make them lovers? Is this because of your dad?
@@djwoosie98 yeah I guess I think people who want to work less don't have the work ethic that they should. I work 6 days most weeks
@@Ryan.zelenski they aren't working less they are working efficiently. Why is this a hard concept to get? Just cause you work 6 days does not mean others need to work similar to get their job done.
If there's work to be done, then there's work that must to be done .
You can work only four days a week as long as you can accomplish seven days worth of work in four days. In which case the employee will become over maxed disgruntled unreliable again. Human economy science your boss probably isn't going to pay you a full time salary for part-time work in return.
Google UA-cam your posting the same nonsense
4 day work week is just so the company overloads can make more money. Long hours are bad for your health.
in companies like walmart or amazon, everyone is replaceable
Time to reduce the amount of hours being worked
4day work, less pay lol. Who's gonna pay for my rent
Raise the wages
However,
I dont think this is sustainable once immigration is open again
Competition for jobs will increase and people will work more hours to justify their jobs
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4 day work week will not work for people will look for a second job.
NOBODY NEEDS TO BE WORKING 2 JOBS ALRIGHT RAISE THE FUCKING WAGE
I was backing this until he started talking about government policy at the end. Sneaky bit of socialism
Governments protecting workers rights doesn't equal socialism
@@sarahb2903 Working four days a week is not a human right…
@@folabusiness602 There are lots of rights now we didn't have 100 years ago; sick pay, maternity leave and 5 day work weeks. Your right not all humans have these rights now but why shouldn't they .. what's the alternative, exploitation.
@@sarahb2903 All the "rights" you just laid out are not human rights.
They shouldn't have those "rights" because the government should not be allowed to threaten violence against an employee or an employer to force them to do things they don't want to do. To hire people they don't want to hire. Or to work/allow people to work for hours that are not in their best interest.
Voluntary trade between two entities is not exploitation.
@@folabusiness602 That's clearly where we differ, i do believe basic workers rights should and do include sick pay, maternity leave and 5 day work weeks in almost all developed countries. Who said anything about violence.
Lol, if I was one of their clients, I'd demand a 20% discount on their rates if they can do the same quality of work in 4 vs 5 days.
And if I were a business owner, I'd fire clients demanding them. You're paying for the end result, not how they get there
@@connorwood95 That is a great reply
got this generation is so lazy. I worked 7 days a week upwards of 90 hours every week!
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Work smart, not hard. You honestly think productivity and income is based on hours worked? Elon Musk doesn't work 584847574 hours a day
That's nuts, there has to be a balance between work and a social and hobbies.
People need work to live not live to work.
7 days a week for up to 90 hours a week? That is admirable, but not something to be proud of at all
@@idrk1507 Its not admirable at all, unless for short term and to gain money quickly. My dad worked 60 hours regularly a week and it was extremely difficult for the family and it took a mental and physical toll on him.
Lolz, reduce carbon footprint? They probably drive around the country every weekend