If something is an unquestionable trend today, it is the emphasis on balancing work and free time. While a few decades ago, employers would have looked at their subordinates with extreme contempt if they demanded, for example, the possibility of working from home or reduced working hours, today similar things are increasingly one of the benefits. And very much appreciated.
How long to work?
At the same time, more and more studies show that the current state of working five days a week and then two days are reserved for rest does not correspond to the needs of today’s modern society. People simply spend too much time at work and have little time left for their hobbies. Alternatively, they are even so tired on the weekend that they cannot attend to them anyway.
Working eight hours every day is actually not something we would imagine. It is more than we then spend with our loved ones. Shouldn’t it be the other way around? Today, however, these are no longer questions on a philosophical level, but are seriously addressed by experts of all possible directions.
After all, the five-day work week is not such an old invention either. Until relatively recently, it was customary to work six days a week, and then only Sunday was free. It was also managed somehow, but from today’s point of view it is unimaginable. At the same time, it is quite possible that in ten or twenty years we will look back in disbelief at the time when we had to work forty hours a week.
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Change to modern times
And what is actually the ideal towards which it should be directed and towards which, according to many, it is actually already directed. Of course, this saves one working day. So, four days would be worked and three days would be free. Friday would become a kind of new Saturday, i.e. the beginning of the weekend. And besides, so many are already adapting it today. After all, try to solve some business or official matters at the end of the week. You probably won’t get much.
A number of countries have been testing this model for some time. These include, for example, Spain, Iceland or Great Britain. And the test results are more than satisfactory. It turns out that in a number of professions, people are able to handle the same workload in four days as in five. Simply because they spread out their work better and don’t hang around as much, which is fairly standard these days.
“Yes, I personally think that a four day work week would suit the current times much better than what we have today. People’s priorities have changed. I make pretty decent money and I wouldn’t really mind if I took a fifth less, but I had more time to enjoy it,” says, for example, twenty-five-year-old Kristýna, who works as a sales clerk in a Prague company.
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At the same time, the plans to introduce a four-day working week do not even count on any salary cuts. On the contrary. Rather, they rely on automation and increased employment. Employers are not against it either. In short, it looks like it will happen soon and everyone will be happy.
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2023-10-11 17:00:00
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