Iceland has just completed the world s largest pilot project trialing the four-day week, involving more than 2,000 workers. This experiment has proved successful, and has reignited the debate surrounding a measure that has long been advocated as a way of increasing employee wellbeing and productivity. But what s the state of affairs in other countries?
Working less, but better, by switching to a four-day week. The idea may not be new, but it has been in the news again in recent days, with all eyes on Iceland. This northern country has just unveiled the results of a large pilot study conducted between 2015 and 2019 among 1 per cent of the Icelandic population. The idea was to propose a reduction in working hours to 35-36 hours a week while keeping the same salary.
Employees going on fake commutes to help separate home and remote work
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So now there is something called a fake commute.
Office worker Susan Jaworski says she started doing a fake commute for a very good reason. One more email, one more phone call, that one more message, that 10 minutes was turning into an hour, two hours, said Jaworski.
The COVID-19 pandemic sent Jaworski and millions of other office workers home, and months later, those workers are still at home, and issues are beginning to pop up. The longer I went, the harder it was. The blend between home and work was starting, and there wasn t really a transition, said Jaworski.
As we come up on one year since the COVID-19 pandemic hit us, a new study shares that people found themselves working more efficiently in work-from-home setting
Our 8 Best Work-From-Home Tips From 2020
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2020 was a bad year in all kinds of ways, but perhaps no institution suffered quite as shocking a blow as the physical office space. Tips for managing your commute or navigating office politics were understandably replaced by tips for optimizing how to work from your couch.
In the beginning of March 2020, no one could have foreseen the ascendency of Zoom, or just how many video chats would take place between then and the beginning of the biggest vaccination program in history. Over one year later, and tons of major companies have ensured that working from home will be the norm going forward, even if we’ve slowly grown disillusioned with rolling out of bed and logging on while still in our underwear.