Support continues to grow in North America for the concept of a standardized, four-day work week — and not only among the exhausted, overwhe
Support continues to grow in North America for the concept of a standardized, four-day work week — and not only among the exhausted, overwhelmed employees who could use another day off to rest or, you know, do life stuff.
A recent survey conducted by the recruitment agency Robert Half Canada found that 91 per cent of senior managers across a variety of organizations with more than 20 employees were in favour of "some type of four-day work week."
Of the 1,449 managers surveyed, 45 per cent supported the idea of a "compressed" work week, in which their teams would work 10 hours a day for four consecutive days. Approximately 43 per cent of managers preferred the idea of a four-day, 32-hour work week, where employees work eight hours per day as usual, but still get three days off every weekend.
When asked if they supported the idea of a four-day work week with alternating days off, only 31 per cent of managers answered yes, suggesting that a "long weekend"-type model would be more popular among employers than a complicated, rotating "here's who works which days this week" situation. [...]
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