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Remote Work Policies Affect US 4-Day Work Week Enthusiasm [1]
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Date: 2023-09
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The four-day workweek is quickly becoming the latest nontraditional approach for employers to assess for their workforce.
Results from the largest-ever trial of the shortened schedule in the United Kingdom garnered buzz earlier this year when 56 of the 61 involved organizations announced they would not return to a standard five-day week after observing improvements in turnover, employee satisfaction and revenue. Another recent experiment involving dozens of companies across North America and Europe found that employees did their assigned work much more efficiently in the shortened time frame.
Now, a new Morning Consult study highlights American workers’ optimism about the practice’s stateside potential: 87% of employed U.S. adults said they would be very or somewhat interested in a four-day workweek, and a nearly equal share (82%) said they think the widespread adoption of it in the United States would be successful.
The research also found that remote work policies may impact the four-day workweek’s appeal. While 75% of employed U.S. adults reported being interested in the truncated approach if remote work was allowed “all or nearly all of the time,” this figure dropped to 51% when respondents were presented with the option of “no remote work at all.”
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