Video: 4 Day Work Week

The dramatic change businesses have been forced to undergo over the past 2 years has called many traditional opinions and mindsets into question. In particular, the relationship between number of hours worked and productivity has been under scrutiny.

Employees working more hours means your business is more productive. Right?

Well according to research, that isn’t the case. In this Ari Agency video segment, Ari Aronson and Christine Beverley discuss the benefits found from 4 Day Work Weeks - as well as the hesitations coming from leadership teams.

In our recent article, we summarized findings from multiple studies done on shorter work weeks. Here are some highlights:

• Iceland trialed shorter work weeks with over 2,500 workers and saw increases in productivity and quality of work. Since this experiment, 86% of their working population has transitioned to adopting shorter work week options.

• Microsoft Japan raised productivity by 40% with a 4-day work week.

• A global study on country productivity showed that countries with lower working hours outperform countries with higher working hours in productivity.

• UK is in the midst of finishing up their 4 Day Work Week experiment. Almost half of the participating companies (49%), said that productivity had improved, while 46% said it has remained stable. Nearly all of them (86%) said they’ll likely keep four-day schedules after the pilots finish in November.

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