{"id":147329,"date":"2022-10-01T05:22:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T10:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/people-are-loving-the-worlds-biggest-four-day-workweek-trial-and-theyre-just-as-productive"},"modified":"2022-10-01T05:22:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T10:22:59","slug":"people-are-loving-the-worlds-biggest-four-day-workweek-trial-and-theyre-just-as-productive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/people-are-loving-the-worlds-biggest-four-day-workweek-trial-and-theyre-just-as-productive","title":{"rendered":"People Are Loving the World\u2019s Biggest Four-Day Workweek Trial\u2014and They\u2019re Just as Productive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/people-are-loving-the-worlds-biggest-four-day-workweek-trial-and-theyre-just-as-productive2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Overall, 86 percent of the survey respondents said they\u2019re likely or extremely likely to want to stick with a four-day work week after the trial ends in three months.<\/p>\n<p>Trials of this sort are becoming more popular; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/15\/spain-to-launch-trial-of-four-day-working-week\"> Spain<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/four-day-week-sturgeon-snp-b1832001.html\"> Scotland<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/Business\/Business-trends\/A-4-day-workweek-Japan-gives-the-idea-serious-thought\">Japan<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/20\/jacinda-ardern-flags-four-day-working-week-as-way-to-rebuild-new-zealand-after-covid-19\">New Zealand<\/a> have all looked into or trialed a reduced work week. Before the UK trial, the largest to date took place in Iceland in 2021, and it was broadly <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2021\/07\/09\/icelands-4-day-work-week-trial-was-a-smashing-success-will-it-start-a-new-trend\/\">considered a success<\/a>. The 2,500 participants reported decreased stress, increased energy levels, improved focus, more independence and control over their pace of work, and less conflict between their work and home lives. Managers reported boosts in employee morale, with productivity levels maintained if not improved.<\/p>\n<p>Eighty-six percent of Iceland\u2019s working population has subsequently either moved to a shorter work week or been given the option to do so. That\u2019s a high percentage, but a small number compared to most European countries; Iceland\u2019s total <a href=\"https:\/\/worldpopulationreview.com\/countries\/iceland-population\">population<\/a> is around 343,000, and it\u2019s a highly equitable society in terms of income.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overall, 86 percent of the survey respondents said they\u2019re likely or extremely likely to want to stick with a four-day work week after the trial ends in three months. Trials of this sort are becoming more popular; Spain, Scotland, Japan, and New Zealand have all looked into or trialed a reduced work week. Before the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}