New study in four-day working work shows increased productivity and decreased stress
) that took place in a high-profile New Zealand company showed some fantastically positive results from those who had their rota changed to four-days-a-week.
While their levels of pay remained the same, the 240 staff at financial services company Perpetual Guardian had their work week reduced by 20%. At the end of the study, the company had found that overall productivity was up 20% on when the staff were working five days, which appeared to result in an increase in profits for the company overall.Additionally, with the work-week hours cut down from 37.5 to 30, they discovered that staff stress levels were down from 45% to 38%, while the staff themselves noted an increase in the scores for the work-life balance, from 54% to 78%.
Since then, Perpetual Guardian have received over 350 requests for more information from companies in 28 countries around the world.
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