A four-day week has been introduced by a small number of firms in Ireland, and those in favour of it say working fewer hours improves a worker's productivity, their commitment and their happiness.
Image: Leah Farrell/Rollingnews.ie Image: Leah Farrell/Rollingnews.ie FOR THE PUBLIC service to transition to a four-day working week it could cost at least €3.9 billion, Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe has said.
The public service is made up of the civil service, as well as the education, justice, health and other sectors.In his answer, Donohoe made the assumption that the fifth day of every week would need to be filled by staff when calculating the cost. “There is no correlation between higher productivity and longer working hours,” he said. “In fact, some of the countries in Europe with some of the shortest working hours have the highest productivity.”
Its managing director Margaret Cox told the podcast: “When we announced it to staff there was dead silence and we were going, ‘Oh my God, nobody likes this idea’. And I think it was that everybody was just falling off their chair.”
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