DO FOUR-DAY WEEKS WORK?
BY ROB BANINO, FREELANCE EDITOR
On the face of it, yes. Trials in Iceland and New Zealand have seen reductions in employee stress levels, improvements in work-life balance scores and boosts in productivity. A 2019 trial at Microsoft in Japan reported a whopping 40 per cent increase (measured by sales per employee over the same period the previous year), as well as reductions in absences and electricity consumption.