So we all agree! This is the time to finish the weeks of five -day. According to the researchers, working only four days a week can be helpful in protecting the mental health of the employees.
A team from Boston College stated that their major studies including more than 100 companies and about 2,900 employees in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and Ireland showed that adopting the week of four -day work revealed extraordinary satisfaction from both owners and employees.
This included improvement in productivity, increase in income, positive effects on physical and mental health and stress and decrease in mental fatigue. In a 2024 survey, in which more than two thousand complete American employees participated, more than half said that they were tired due to continuous office pressure last year.
Julit Shore, a professor of sociology and a member of the four -day week Global, said: ‘When the interviewed woman told her biggest customer that she will no longer work on Friday, she was told in response,’ Very good! ,
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The group was established to provide a platform for four -day work week supporters. ‘I think it is an indication of how people have changed their thinking about the nature of work; We have reached a place where three -day holiday is now considered more appropriate. ,
These companies participated in six months test projects conducted by Four Day Global. The project did not reduce the salaries of the employees and the participating companies and organizations showed no interest in reducing the salary.
The latest data of this study was released this month, which was obtained from the first and second tests which included 33 companies.
Researchers including experts from University College Dublin collected information from employees through surveys and interviews, while companies provided administrative data.
He said that he is analyzing the difference between the diversity of the population and the type of jobs before and after experimentation, as well as a population of various countries, companies, employees.
Associate Professor Wayne Fan explained: ‘Work hours have decreased, well improved, and the main result is maintained at the organizational level – and it all happened without employees.
According to their analysis, one of the main reasons for maintaining the production capacity of employees was that companies abolished or restricted less effective or unnecessary activities such as unnecessary meetings. Instead, the conversation started through phone calls and messaging apps.
Another important factor was that the staff would use their third holiday for a doctor or other personal tasks, which would have to enter the work days.
According to the researchers, adopting a week of four -day work in a week can reduce the cost of health care and reduce the rate of employee’s job.
However, this method cannot be applied to every institution. He said that some high -functional places, such as four -day functions in manufacturing, can be difficult to adopt the week.
In addition, he has not yet tried a week of four -day work in a huge company. So far, organizations have been added to which more than five thousand people work.
The study, which was published in the magazine ‘Nature Human Bahir’ on Monday, is based on previous research, detected the same type of benefits, and in a recent study, long -working hours have been linked to a change in mental structure.
Fan told the website Gizmudo that he monitored the participants six months after the completion of the trial project, and found that all the significant impacts were ‘continuously’.
He said in a statement: ‘Social change is always difficult, especially when it comes to challenging deep institutional principles that decide when, where and how we work. It is expected that we will not create a crisis of the Cood crisis in the world of work introduced in our work. ,