The four-day work week is good for business

Get the Full StoryAfter spending two months testing a 20 shorter week, a New Zealand company found its employees happier, more focused, and producing the same amount of work. Now they’re making the change permanent.

This spring, a New Zealand company tried a new experiment: Employees could work four standard days instead of five, but would be paid their usual salary. Newly-released numbers from a study of the project, which lasted eight weeks, show that it worked. Workers’ sense of work-life balance went from 54 to 78 . Stress went down. And the missed hours didn’t affect job performance, which actually slightly improved.Read Full Story

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