4-day week - rethinking working life
It sounds like a dream: a 4-day week with the same pay. Is that possible? Apparently, because the list of companies trying it out is getting longer and longer.
Some companies are now also demonstrating this in Austria, although there are differences - sometimes the 38.5 hours are simply spread over 4 instead of 5 days, sometimes they are reduced to 37.
Well, in times of massive labor shortages, it is clear that employers have to think about something in order to remain or become attractive.
It is obvious that the time is crying out for a rethink.
Many people see their lifetime - and rightly so, we believe - as their most precious asset and naturally want to sell it to the highest bidder.
The only difference is that in this case "highest bidder" is not necessarily to be regarded as being worth its weight in gold (i.e. pecuniary), but rather goes hand in hand with appreciation and recognition of the time seller's needs.
What Belgium, Great Britain and some others are demonstrating could soon determine the working world here too. There are a wide variety of models, and you can often choose which one suits your life best.
So a 5-day week, or
- 4-day week with the same workload and salary
- 4-day week with reduced pay and reduced hours
- 4-day week with the same number of hours
- v.m.
https://news.pro.earth/2023/05/05/das-new-work-konzept-oekologisch-nachhaltig-technologisch-klug-und-human/
Now that the pandemic has shown us that we are perfectly capable of performing satisfactorily on our own responsibility, perhaps it is time to question and rethink working time models and employment relationships as we have known them until now, because what we leave to our employers is actually the most valuable thing we have. Lifetime.
