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4-day working week An arrangement in which employees work for four days instead of the usual five. This redistribution of working hours can be used to reduce costs and overtime. But unions often oppose the four-day plan.



Any attempt to introduce 32-hour workweek Until recently, they remained unrealizable, despite the practice of implementation over the past 50-80 years. "Site"He always keeps his finger on the pulse. We learned that Russia wants to introduce a “four-day” for women. What is behind this, we will understand in this article.

4-Day Workweek So, History First. More. Henry Ford. practiced reducing the working week of employees to 5 days and 40 hours (instead of the usual for that time 6 days of 10-12 hours). He noted that the productivity of workers only increased.



GettyImages was first introduced in 1965 by Roundpay Metal Finishers. Her experience was later adopted by other companies, particularly US firms. Researchers in the 1970s assumed that with the emerging forecasts and trends in the 1980-2000 years, the length of the working year would decrease, and the usual working week would be a 30-hour four-day.

In 2008, the Utah administration began working 10 hours 4 days a week. At the same time, she saved well on electricity, heating, air conditioning and gasoline. However, in 2011, state lawmakers stopped the practice due to complaints from citizens and meager savings.

On February 1, 2013, President Yahya Jammeh announced the transition to a four-day working week of 8 hours. Friday, he said, should be set aside for rest, prayers and farming. But that schedule was scrapped in 2017 by the new president, Adam Barrow, who introduced a half-day Friday.



In 2016, an IT company in Romania declared Monday a day off. They soon noticed that Fridays were more productive. The extra third weekend gave workers 50% more free time.

The New Zealand trust company in 2018 switched to a “four-day” with the preservation of all payments, standard working hours and no overtime. Auckland universities later called the idea a success and a win.

The Perpetual Guardian then introduced the "four-day" on a permanent basis. And it demonstrated gains in productivity, high customer service, and reduced stress levels. In other words, there was a work-life balance.



Despite the many benefits and success of the experiment, not all Perpetual Guardian workers were able to adapt. Some admitted that they feel the stress of trying to finish work in a shorter time, others that they miss their extra day off, being away from work and colleagues.

The British Labour Party is interested in switching to a four-day working week. Party members were transferred to it and economists were asked to conduct a study on the subject. After 5 months of “four days” with a salary increase, there was an increase in labor productivity and customer satisfaction, as well as a decrease in stress levels.



The benefits of a four-day working week are also tangible. A 32-hour week has been shown to increase productivity by 20%. The performance is supported by studies according to which the modern person is productive only about 3 hours a day.

Employees who work one day less per week have extra time for favorite activities, communication with family, quality sleep, which undoubtedly has a positive effect on their productivity. Due to the fact that the workplace is used less by one day, operating and environmental costs are also reduced. Scientists have even calculated that the additional output contributes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere.



In 2014, the International Labor Organization invited its member countries (Russia among them) to think about switching to a four-day period. Because productivity is low in Russia, four-day work would require 10 hours a day. There are also productions where such a form simply does not take root. Deputy Prime Minister O. Golodets said that the four-day option is not suitable for this country. In contrast, representatives of religious institutions endorsed the idea.

In August 2019, a number of legislative initiatives on labor legislation raised the question of the prospects for introducing four working days instead of five in Russia. This question of the distribution of the 40-hour weekly load for 4 days is still open.



According to the director of the Institute of Employment and Professions of the HSE, Fyodor Prokopov, they will definitely not be ready to reduce the working week: the police, the Ministry of Emergency Situations, electric grid companies. Teachers and doctors are not suitable either. 4-day work scheduleOtherwise, there may be serious threats to the health and life of people, and curricula will be undermined.

4-day working week for women in Russia Commissioner for human rights in the Russian capital Moscow Tatiana Potyaeva supported the idea of introducing four-day working week for women. I think another weekend will help women. Combining work and all the worries. This is reported by TASS.

The ombudsman explained her decision by the fact that women have “a load to combine work and all the worries that are.” According to the official, the introduction of a four-day working week in the future will be discussed. It allows monitoring of citizens’ opinions on this issue.



In 2019, the CEO of a product IT company in the field of e-education, development of complex web products, partner and CPA marketing decided to test in practice how the “4-day” will affect the productivity and efficiency of employees. Friday was declared a day off. The number of hours worked did not change – 8 per day, the salary remained the same.

This is how the company assesses its experience: “Before announcing the new format of work, we discussed it with the teams of each department. We decided to make Friday a day off for everyone to be in touch in the same format. Since we are not an outsourced company, customers are not affected. Overall, 60% of the experiment was not successful.

“The 4-day workweek has its pros and cons. Among the advantages: the team is in a high mood; there is a realization that in the week 4 days, therefore, you need not delay with tasks, etc.; there is more time for reading, hobbies or research, thanks to which interesting thoughts are born. If we talk about the disadvantages, then, firstly, such a system works with a very high self-organization of the team, which is not always real. Another disadvantage is that the limitation of working time of developers negatively affected the speed of the company. As a result, I can say that the 4-day work schedule has a positive effect on the psychological state of employees, but negatively on the speed of processes.”



I don’t know how women feel in other countries, but my friends and I have repeatedly discussed the desire and opportunity to work 4 days a week, so that there are three days off. In my opinion, this is an ideal option for women who are supported by a house-work-children. Not only that. It's only one of three weekends that I get to read a book or watch a series.

If you have experience working on an unusual schedule, write in the comments, we are very interested! If not yet, tell me, would you like to switch to “four days”?

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