cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12307563
A UK study shows work intensity remains lower and job satisfaction is higher during a four-day workweek.
The majority of companies in the United Kingdom that took part in the world’s largest study trialling a four-day workweek have made the policy permanent, with 100 per cent of managers and CEOs saying it had a “positive” impact on the organisation.
Some 61 organisations took part in the six-month pilot in 2022. The trial results were announced on Thursday with 89 per cent of companies still using the four-day workweek a year later and over half of the firms making the change permanent.
The study also showed that work intensity remains lower and job satisfaction is higher than before the pilot began with almost all the employees (96 per cent) saying their personal life had benefited, and 86 per cent said they felt they performed better at work.
If the white collar workers normalize it it’ll spread - the only really big exception to this is probably service workers - restaurants will still want to be open 7 days a week so waiters may be expected to work proportionally more hours… waiters tend to be a weak group in the labor market so I could see this imbalance lasting quite a while.
They can just hire more staff. A lot of service jobs are part time anyway. There’s nothing having multiple rotas and more staff can’t fix
That’s a perfectly reasonable solution… do you think the restaurant managers that try their damnedest to avoid paying waiters a livable wage and are statistically the most likely employers to commit wage theft or tax fraud - as well as advocating for tipping culture to again try and minimize compensation - do you think they’re likely to be on board with a solution that makes shift rotas more complicated? Or do you think they’ll continue to try and keep every waiter at exactly 39 hours technically not qualifying as an FTE on the books with duties like tear down being considered off shift?
I don’t think this is a reason not to push for 8-4 but I partially agree with the much downvoted comment above that this schedule won’t roll out at the same time for everyone.
I 1000% agree, the asset class won’t give up their wealth. But to say it won’t happen because it’s not possible is wrong.
It won’t happen because a small minority of ludicrously privileged individuals, who treat the Forbes Billionaires list as a leaderboard, are too fucking greedy to only live an amazingly luxurious life instead of a ultra super duper amazingly luxurious life.
I think it’s downvoted because of a defeatist attitude. I agree with the highly downvoted top comment on a factual level, I’m not sure who wouldn’t
Service staff already work 1-4 days a week for starters -Thur, Friday, Sat, Sun are the best paying days. And secondly because nobody hires full-time anymore.