Four -day Work Week Studies: Employees More Happy, More Fatual

The biggest case Occasionally holding a four -day work week has shown that the schedule has a positive and significant impact on the welfare of the employees.

The global study was published in the Journal on Monday Nature human behavior And Boston College researchers headed by Van Fan and Juliet Shore. Researchers found that four -day work Week, where employees work 32 hours a week instead of traditional 40 hours, which does not reduce salary, which significantly improves employees’ health. Workers reported happiness, healthy and high performance.

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For example, about 70 70 % of employees reported less, more than 40 % said their mental health had improved, and 38 % had experienced better sleep.

“In addition to maintaining productivity, people feel much better,” Noise Told Cnbc About the results of the study on Thursday. “They feel their work and their lives at the top, and they are not pressured.”

Researchers followed 2,896 employees for six months on a four -day work week, covers 141 companies in the United States, UK, Canada, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand. A standard five -day work week was used to compare a control group consisting of 300 employees.

Two weeks before the four -day work week began, employees were asked questions like, “How do you classify your mental health?” And then they were asked again after six months on a four -day workweick schedule. The control group asked the same questions in the same timeframe, but without any work.

FanAn associate professor of sociology at Boston College, was initially Anxious The welfare of this worker will be “damaged” as employees will feel the pressure to be more fruitful on the schedule with a small number. But these results show that workers’ levels have fallen. Six months later, employees reported a better ability to complete their work and reduce fatigue instead of five working four days a week. In the meantime, the control group did not report any significant change.

Researchers wrote in the study, “The results suggest that the four -day work Week is an effective organizational intervention to enhance the welfare of workers working for income protection.”

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Companies are choosing to stay on a four -day work week after trying once. Researchers said that more than 90 % of the companies had a four -day work week after a six -month trial period in the experiment.

The noise wrote Wall Street Journal Last month, when the employer, the four -day work Week pilot organizations found that it had significantly improved their lower line, which has increased revenue and reduced resignation.

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The Shore noted that more than 245 global business and non -profit organizations have tested four -day work Week in the last three years, and have reached 8,700 employees worldwide.

A large company that uses a four -day work week is a crowded platform kickstarter, which started its short work. As a pilot program In 2021. Cook Starter’s CEO Ever Taylor Told investor Kevin Oli Last year when employees are “very fruitful” in a four -day week’s structure.

Taylor said, “I am realistic that the people of our company have (other) interests.”

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