A four-day workweek at five-day pay may sound exotic. But some companies are adopting it, effectively making every Friday a paid holiday.
Video game makers in Kentucky are cranking four days a week on a new title based on the classic slasher movie"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
The shortened week has been a winner for Gun Interactive, Chief Executive Wes Keltner said, as employees stay focused to complete their tasks on time and return to the office on Monday with a full head of creative steam because they've had sufficient downtime. Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | RSS Feed | Omny Studio Many white-collar companies are already partaking in what look like four-day weeks, even if bosses are expecting workers to put in 40 hours of work at times of their choosing. Fewer than 20% of U.S. workers come to the office on Fridays these days, said Mark Grinis, leader of EY's real estate practice in the Americas. The weekly average is nearly 50%.
EY didn't attempt to break out which companies are committed to 40-hour pay for 32 hours of work, and the number of such companies still appears to be small. But historic notions about how workers should perform their jobs have been upended before — and will be again. COVID-19 supercharged use of technological advances made in recent decades that made it possible to work anywhere. Executives knew remote work was feasible, but the pandemic forced them to put it into practice at a wide scale.
"People continue to work longer hours while their pay remains stagnant," he said in a statement."We cannot continue to accept this as our reality."
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