{"id":3015,"date":"2018-07-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/uncategorised\/huzzah-four-day-week-could-soon-be-your-future\/"},"modified":"2018-07-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T00:00:00","slug":"huzzah-four-day-week-could-soon-be-your-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/news\/huzzah-four-day-week-could-soon-be-your-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Huzzah! A four-day week could soon be in your future"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems every time a long weekend rolls around we find ourselves telling coworkers, “If only every week were like this”.<\/p>\n

But what if it could become reality?<\/p>\n

Well, if the recent reports are anything to go by, it might be sooner than we think.<\/p>\n

A New Zealand company decided to test the theory of a four-day working week (with significantly <\/em>shorter meetings), switching to the shorter mode and taking stock of things like productivity and work-life balance.<\/p>\n

The firm, Perpetual Guardian, found the change boosted productivity among its 240 employees after reducing the work week from 40 hours to 32. <\/p>\n

Researchers asked to study the change also found a 24 per cent improvement in work-life balance with many employees coming back to work more energised.<\/p>\n

Staff and supervisors were also found to be more creative, have better attendance, were on time and didn’t leave early or take as long of a break. <\/p>\n

Employees reported using their extra day off to spend more time with their families, exercising and doing things around the house.<\/p>\n

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“[Employees] worked out where they were wasting time and worked smarter, not harder,” said one researcher from the New Zealand study.<\/p>\n

The company’s founder, Andrew Barnes said he believes employers should negotiate specific tasks to be completed when hiring, as opposed to basing contracts on hours spent in the office. <\/p>\n

“A contract should be about an agreed level of productivity,” he said. “If you deliver that in less time, why should I cut your pay?”<\/p>\n

This isn’t the first time a company has fiddled around with the idea of shortening the work week (although it is one of the closest to home).<\/p>\n

A prior study in Sweden experimented with a six-hour workday, finding employees completed the same amount of work (or more!) while working fewer hours – A French study in 2000 tried a 35-hour workweek and reported the opposite but ah… let’s just pretend that didn’t happen. ‘Kay?<\/p>\n

Image: Getty<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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