The 4 Day Week Campaign, an initiative aiming to make the new work pattern a norm, has been working hard this year to get more businesses on board.
The question we’re all thinking about at this stage is whether South Africa will ever be ready for the four-day workweek.
South Africans are toiling away in the higher range of the average working hours per week compared to the rest of the world.
The nine-to-five grind is becoming irrelevant as old-fashioned companies are forced to embrace necessary changes in order to keep their workforce happy and healthy.
The first global study of its kind showed that 745 000 people died in 2016 from stroke and heart disease due to long working hours. During COVID-19 times, those hours are only lengthening.
What if I told you that the standard nine to five workday is the reason you aren’t as productive as you could be?
The idea of the four-day workweek has risen to prominence recently, along with remote working. I’m not so sure the eight-hour workweek is going to take off.
This New Zealand company ran a game-changing experiment that saw its employees working four days a week instead of five. Tell your boss right now.
Some people think they’re lucky because they don’t have to work hard all day, but there are others in South Africa who have it rough.
Ag shame, you really do work harder than anyone else. Ask some workforce experts, though, and you might be able to use facts and figures to back up your raise request.
Working is a great way to earn money, no doubt, but there really is more to life than sitting behind a desk. Emails be gone.