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4 days work week (with the same pay) improves employee health, happiness and makes the company 20% more money than 5 days week.
But sure, it's some woke socialists idea.
It's 1 less day to enjoy the chains of capitalism. We can't have more moments for realization now can we?
How does it make the company 20% more money?
The idea being that you are more productive and more focused because you are more rested.
It's probably tnaked to a decrease in stupid preventable mistakes.
Most companies aren't able to count the costs of stupid preventable mistakes. 20% is the number I've seen, but it's low because of hard to measure factors.
The companies that do understand the costs of stupid preventable mistakes usually go in a "work life balance" binge to improve their own bottom line.
No clue. I got that number from articles about multiple pilot runs. Well, honestly, it depends; on the company structure and what they do. A minority of companies made a bit less. But on average in the range 10% to 20% more. Guesses are, because not much happens at friday anyway and employees are less tired on monday. 4 days workweek just seems to hit a better balance.