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4-Day Week in Iceland goodmenproject.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from goodmenproject.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Iceland's Short Work Week Trial Declared An "Overwhelming Success" awaken.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from awaken.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
July 16, 2021 Share When the industrial revolution took hold, work dominated life so severely that it was common for people to work 16 hours daily, six days a week. Eventually, people realized how unhealthy this was, and the late 1800s saw a demand for better regulation of work hours. The US federal laws set the maximum workweek to 40 hours, and anything beyond that was regarded as overtime pay. That five-day, 40-hour week stuck so well it was entrenched in the 20th century. Between 2005 and 2015, as work hours increased, productivity per hour decreased. (Credit: Alda, Association for Democracy and Sustainability, 2021) However, there has recently been a push to reduce the hours of a standard workweek down again. Several successful “four-day week” experiments have shown significant benefits to cutting the workweek down. In 2018, a prominent New Zealand trial found widespread productivity improvements and worker engagement after asking employees to del ....
4-day week in Iceland: Almost 9 out of 10 Icelanders are entitled to work shorter hours pressenza.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pressenza.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
4-day work week trials in Iceland deemed overwhelming success by researchers By Kelly Hayes Microsoft Japan boosted productivity by 40 percent by switching to a four-day work week Compared to a year prior, sales per employee in August 2019 were found to be 40 percent higher, while total working days were down 25.4 percent. Trials of a four-day work week held in Iceland were deemed an overwhelming success by researchers in a new report. Iceland conducted two large-scale trials involving over 2,500 workers, which is about 1% of Iceland s entire working-age population. Participants were from a wide range of workplaces, including offices, hospitals, schools and social service providers. Participants in the trials worked 35-36 hours per week with no cut in pay. ....