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However, some companies have introduced a four-day week based on a compressed work schedule: [7] in the so-called "4/10 work week," the widely used 40 weekly work hours are distributed across four days instead of five, resulting in 10-hour workdays (hence "four-ten").
Employees could get the right to a four-day working week under new laws being considered by Labour as part of their package for workers.. This would come in the form of “compressed hours ...
A study conducted in Iceland between 2015 and 2019 found reducing the number of work days a week did not lower productivity – but did bring a dramatic increase in employee well-being.
Increasingly, employers are offering compressed work schedules to employees. Some government and corporate employees now work a 9/80 work schedule (80 hours over 9 days during a two-week period)—commonly 9-hour days Monday to Thursday, 8 hours on one Friday, and off the following Friday.
One year after the conclusion of the world’s biggest trial of a four-day work week, a large majority of companies that took part were still allowing their employees to work a shorter week and ...
Flextime, also spelled flex-time or flexitime (), is a flexible hours schedule that allows workers to alter their workday and adjust their start and finish times. [1] In contrast to traditional [2] work arrangements that require employees to work a standard 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. day, Flextime typically involves a "core" period of the day during which employees are required to be at work (e.g ...
In China, there is a five-day Monday–Friday working week, prior to which work on Saturday was standard. China began the two-day Saturday–Sunday weekend on May 1, 1995. Most government employees work 5 days a week (including officials and industrial management). Most manufacturing facilities operate on Saturdays as well.
The compressed week proposal is part of a swath of new initiatives to give U.K. workers more flexible working arrangements and bring the country closer in line with other European nations.