4DayWorkWeek #Efficiency #EmployeeWellness
So I just read that ASDA is scrapping their 4 day work week because employees didn’t like it. 🚫🕒 But wait, they were making them work 11-hour days for 4 days a week! No wonder it didn’t work out. 🤨
The whole point of a 4 day work week is to be more efficient and productive, not just cramming the same workload into less time. Check out the difference in approach between ASDA and companies like the one in this article. 📊
Are employers like ASDA missing the point or are they deliberately setting the 4 day week up for failure? 🤔 Here’s my take:
- Educate Employees: Help them understand the benefits of a 4 day work week.
- Implement Time-Tracking Tools: Identify time-wasters and improve productivity.
- Encourage Work-Life Balance: Focus on results, not hours worked.
- Flexible Schedules: Allow for adjustments that work for everyone.
What do you think? How can we make the 4 day work week successful for both employers and employees? Let’s discuss! 💬🌟
it’s a mixture of stupidity and cuntishness.
Fuck Asda!
I have the option for a 4 day work week. But no way I’m working 10 hrs days. I typically do 9 hr days and half a day on Friday.
Pretty decent balance.
I get it but I’d rather work 4 10s than 5 8s
I get that the point is less hours and the same pay, but an entire day off gave much more personal value to me, because if I’m at work at all the odds of me doing jack shit in my personal time on that day are against me
The employees they asked were probably salaried, forced to get a 20% pay cut and do the same amount of work. Data sets can say whatever you want them to say
The whole point of a four-day workweek is that it’s actually a 32-hour workweek of four 8-hour days at no cut in monthly/yearly pay.
And guess what? In nearly major test done across the world, it’s found to improve performance, with employees doing more in 4 days than they did in 5 due to being more rested and content at work. At worst, it saves money by decreasing the number of employees burning out or quitting and needing to be replaced.
In the UK, several local councils have been testing it. The biggest one so far finished last week, and the results were that across 24 areas of the council, 11 had improved performance, 11 had no performance increase or decrease (they performed as well in 4 days as they did in 5), and only 2 had drops in performance.
However in in the lower performance areas their reduction in performance is nothing compared to the increase elsewhere. In the lower performance groups the average time it took them to process a certain piece of paperwork increased from 28 days to 30 days. In the groups that had increased performance, it dropped from 3 weels to 1 and a half weeks. 50% reduction in 11 groups compared to 7% increase in 2.
The results speak for themselves, and these results have been similar across every council that has trialled it so far.
I was doing 5 nines and the company switched to 4 11’s for a year. They said we weren’t getting enough work done and next year we were going back to 5 days.
The next year we found out not only did we increase profits year over year, but we were now working 5 11s.
It was all the company bullshitting to squeeze more out of us
Instead of a 4 day work week, we need to call it a 32 hour work week. 🧐
The biggest problem with alternative workweek scheduling
.. Is getting all the crybabies in agreement and on the same page
Ngl… Partially the employees fault for one reason…. Not standing up for themselves or pushing back.
My city is trying to mandate 4 day school week but in response the city is pushing employers for a 4 day work week for child care reasons….
You mandate a 4 day work week; I’m NOT working more then my 8hrs/day. Period. You’re either gonna change my pay rate to salary so I can make the same in 32hrs or increase my hourly rate to equal the same weekly rate in 32 hours as 40hrs.
4*10 is less hours than 5*8 because of OT and lunch. One less lunch and one less day to attempt to squeeze overtime in. The wellbeing of the employee is less important, especially considering that when employees aren’t exhausted they can find a new job or organize.
Super nasty business, but they are not on your side.
I’ve seen a lot about this recently. An active move from the head offices of supermarkets that have unionised workers?
The true 4 day week is so easily achievable and beneficial in every way, but workers would be too happy so they’ll work to sabotage it at every opportunity, and I for one am so damn tired.
So they tried continental shift work, not a 4 day 32 hour week.
Yes, and so is everything dipshit that repeats their talking points.
Part of it is a messaging issue. Calling it a “4-day work week” instead of a “32-hour work week” makes it way to easy to interpret this way. Add to that the fact that 4×10 has been around for a while, and a lot of people assume you are referring to 4×10 when you say “4-day work week.” Some of those mistakes are honest miscommunication, but some of it is employers deliberately trying to take advantage of the confusion.
This is why I heavily advocate for avoiding “4-day work week” in the messaging and exclusively saying “32-hour work week.” It’s a much clearer message that completely avoids these kinds of situations.
Next they’ll tell them “full time is now 32 hours a week, but your hourly pay will be the same.”
Gee, employees don’t seem to like the new work schedule. They keep saying “*I need more hours, my kids are starving*” and “Give me more hours, I’m going to fall short on rent!”
Better go back to 40s, oh well.
I’d hate the 4 day work week too if I was doing 11 hour shifts. I found 8 hours didn’t give me enough free time after my shifts as it was.
I spend 3-4 hours of most work days doing basically nothing related to my job. My work is such that when it is completed for the week, there will be no more until next week. But no matter what, I have to hit 40 hours. It’s so archaic. I work as many hours in the first 4 days so I can leave early on day 5, but if they just cut my week to a reasonable number of hours, my life would improve so much. I don’t even hate my job, I’ve had so much worse. But having to be here just because makes me burn out so much faster than necessary.
They’re being purposely obtuse. My work tried similar but made it a 10 hour day 4 days a week and random day off during the week. Like one person I know gets thursdays off and so works 3 days, one day off then works Friday. It’s asinine.
Most employers don’t want to give that large of a pay increase to reduce hours