The 4-day workday was one of the great debates in the world of work, with Iceland at the forefront, as it implemented one of the largest experiments ever made, although it ended up having some drawbacks, but it has served as an example for companies like Telefónica or Desigual to begin applying this model.
There is an analysis carried out by Harvard Business Review that concludes that the 4-day workday will return as one of the incentives that can be applied for the war for the most demanded talents, and that it can become another conditioning factor when the salary does not cover all expectations.
It seems that if salaries increase, leisure time becomes more valuable and attractive for workers, and if in addition not all companies can offer astronomical salaries, and as a cherry on top if we add the great inflation that is currently being experienced, we may see some companies offering 32-hour work weeks with the same pay, as a new way of competing to obtain labor talent.
The big debate in all this is whether or not to reduce the salary, since if this happens, some people consider it a reduction in working hours, and in case the salary is not reduced, there are also those who ask whether the companies will be equally productive.