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.
It is time for an update on the old workweek, and with campaigns like 4 Day Week Global showing that it works, that time really ought to be now.
South Africans are toiling away in the higher range of the average working hours per week compared to the rest of the world.
In addition to having a shorter workweek approved, employers will also be allowed to switch their phones off after work and ignore their bosses without consequence.
If there is anything good that has come out of the gruelling COVID-19 pandemic, it has to be that how, where, and for how long we work has changed drastically, making this new working model all the more plausible.
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.
When it comes to how business hours are structured, times are changing, as companies all over the world take on the four-day workweek.
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.