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Why Are More Companies Trying 4-Day Workweeks?

2022 finds a few more companies implementing https://thenewstack.io/2022-forecast-whats-next-for-tech-workers/. But what’s equally interesting is the reasons why they’re doing it.

In February, a http://fourdayweek.ie/press-release-17-companies-signed-up-to-four-day-week-pilot-programme-to-date/ — and among the 17 companies participating so far is recruitment-services company Yala.

When a company tries a shorter workweek, “employees are likely to see themselves as ‘special’ and may be conscious of the need to make the experiment work.”

And in August, Reuters had also reported that Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica began four-day workweeks for 15,000 of its employees — with workers https://www.reuters.com/world/the-great-reboot/four-beats-five-pandemic-prompts-shorter-working-week-trials-2021-08-12/.