Louis Bloomsfield inspecting the drums of Beer in his own brewery in north London, eagerly waiting for June, as he will have an extra day off every week.
36-yearOld brewer plans to me use Sharing time in charitable work start A long awaited course in Particle physics and spend more time with family.
he and colleagues At the Brewery Pressure Drop in a sixA month’s experience of four working days a week, with 3,000 other companies from 60 British companies.
The pilot – billed as the world’s largest to date – aims to help Companies fall short of their work hours without cutting salaries or sacrifice revenue.
Similar trials to her also taken place in Spain, Iceland, USA and Canada. It is scheduled to Australia and New Zealand start for them in August.
Alex Sojong Kim Bang A program manager At 4 Day Week Global, campaign group behind Trial, she would give companies”more time for work Across challengesan experience with new practices and data collection.
smaller organizations should look for it easier to adapt, as they can big changes more He told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
pressure drop, based on in Tottenham Hill hope the experience will not only improve the productivity of their employees, but also also their well-being.
At the same time, it will reduce their carbon footprint.
Royal Society of Biology, another participant in trial, says Want it give employees “more independence over their time and work patterns.
Both hope to have a shorter working week help They retain staff, at a time when British companies are facing with Severe shortage of staff, vacancies hit a record 1.3 million.
Not everything is rosy
Sam Smith, co-founder of Pressure Drop brewery, said: new way of Work will be a learning process.
“It will be difficult for a company like us Which should keep working all the time, but that’s what we’ll test with in This trial.”
Smith thinks about giving different days off in The week is for its employees, and they are divided into two parts teams To keep the brewery running all the time.
When Unilever tried a shorter work week for It has 81 employees in New Zealand, was only able to do this because industrialization does not require place in in Auckland office and all the staff work in Sales or Marketing.
The service industry plays a big role role in United kingdom economyIt contributes 80% of the country’s GDP.
Thus, the shorter working week is easier For adoption, said Jonathan Boyce, labor economist at the Chartered Institute of Staff and development.
But for Sectors such as retail, food and beverage, healthcare and education, it more problem.
He said the boys are bigger challenge will be how To measure productivity, in particular in a economy where a lot of work My kind in return for it in Factory.
In fact, because salaries will remain the same in this trial, for A company that does not lose outEmployees must be productive in Four days are five.
After Aidan Harper, author of “the case for four days a week” countries work less hours tend to be higher productivity.
Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands work less hours From the UK, so far higher levels of He told AFP.
“Within Europe, Greece is working more hours From anyonehowever it has the lowest levels of productivity.”
Hiring a great power
employees in United kingdom work Approximately 36.5 hours every week, against his peers in Greece who Wall Clock in up of 40 hours, according to database company Statista.
Phil McParlane, Founder of The recruitment firm 4dayweek.io based in Glasgow, says A shorter working week offer is a win-winand even calls it a “recruitment superpower.”
His company only advertises four days a week and flexi jobs.
They saw the number of Companies looking to hire through the platform rise 30 to 120 in The past two years, during which many workers reconsidered their priorities and workLife Balance in epidemic.
