Full-time workers could be given the right to ask their employers to work a four-day week, and many people are all for it - but will it truly lead to a better quality of life? Read more on Grazia.
Full-time workers could be given the right to ask their employers to work a four-day week - but will it truly lead to a better quality of life?The four day work week could finally become a reality. Yes, you heard that right. Under new government plans to increase flexible working**,** full-time workers could be given the right to ask their employers to work a four-day week.
Talk about a four-day week has been steadily increasing since the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced us to rethink traditional ways of working. Back in 2022, it was announced that more than 30 companies in the UK would take part in a pilot of a four-day working week to 'herald in a bold new way of working in 2022.' The six-month trial was led by 4 Day Week Global, and attempted to measure whether workers can operate at 100% productivity for 80% the time.
'Parenting itself isn't difficult, what's difficult is when you're trying to parent and do other things at the same time, like getting the house in order. That mental load becomes truly unbearable, and you do burnout. She concludes that this becomes a never-ending cycle of inefficiency. 'It does affect how you perform at work which then has a knock on affect on how you parent. I really feel strongly about this model for promoting output over hours,' she added.
I was so conditioned to think that if you're working less than five days a week, you aren't working at your optimal potential. Ironically, it turned out that the less days I did, the more I got done. Amber O’Brien, registered Mental Health Nurse and Founder of Headworks - a company specialising in workplace wellbeing, echoed these sentiments. She believes that the four day work week is a fantastic idea and that it's vital for companies start advocating for the wellbeing of their employees. She explains, 'Our brains are not designed to work for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. In fact, employees working a 5 day week are ‘productive’ for around 3 hours per day on average.
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