Who can benefit most from a 4-day work week?

Faced with this issue that is "on the table" of a 4-day workweek, there are many voices that debate who can benefit more, the employer who hires or the worker; to answer this question we can look back, and go to Great Britain in 1840, and see that at that time working fewer hours allowed production to be maintained and the quality of work to be improved.

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And working more hours is not necessarily synonymous with more productivity, since if we look at more examples, the famous Henry Ford, in 1926, also lowered working hours, after having carried out several experiments that demonstrated identical productivity.

And one of the most recent examples that we can present is that of Iceland, a country in which a 40-hour workday has been changed to a 36-hour week, with more than positive results.

If a 32-hour workday were applied in Spain, for 4 days, it would be necessary to ensure the same productivity, and also the same amount of work done, or what would be the same, 20% more productivity, and it seems that right now, if we take into account the ratio of GDP and hours worked, there is not a very good productivity ratio.

But on the other hand, it seems that this could be a very good incentive to attract and retain talent, in all those companies that decide to apply this working day model, and this is always positive data.

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What is clear is that the labor market must tend more towards models in which productivity is not so tied to in-person work or infinite hours of work. With systems like our Timenet, you can manage work by project, and see how it progresses in terms of productivity and good time management and optimization!

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