4 days working week

Work schedule has not been changed for a long period of time since it’s been established in the end of the 30s. A five-day, 40-hour workweek standard was since then working process and environment has improved dramatically with the development of technology. All the manual work is now automated and requires fewer efforts by humans to perform. Due to these reasons, many employers are now thinking of reducing their working days.

The growing demand for productivity from employees and long working hours are causing more stress and depression that leads to dissatisfaction at work. As a result, staff members are facing issues with health which increases the costs of the company to cover health insurance expenses. Some workers are trying to solve the problems by changing workplaces after they feel uncomfortable. People are searching for better job offers in other companies, and because of this there is a high turnover of workers, and this is an additional cost for the companies to search and hire new people.

The solution to these problems can be the establishment of a four-day working week with the same amount of salary as it was before. Introducing a four-day workweek has multiple effects not only on the workers but on the revenue of the organization, excluding unnecessary steps in the working process and in general on the environment as well. With less time at work, employees will be more concentrated and accomplish tasks faster. Decreased working hours will eliminate time that is spent on meetings and discussions which often consume a majority of the time spent to complete the project. An effect of the establishment of the four-day working week will be an improvement in the natural environment, especially in big cities. Citizens of metropolitans spend hours in traffic jams while they reach offices. When fewer people are traveling on Friday, it will help to make the transportation system less crowded.