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Perhaps not a surprise. But working less, for the same pay, makes workers feel better and more relaxed.
we study how an organization-wide 4-day workweek intervention—with no reduction in pay—affects workers' well-being.
These are the findings from new peer-reviewed research published in Nature Human Behaviour, where researchers monitored the effects of a four-day work week for six months.
About 2,896 employees across 141 organisations in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United States, Ireland and the United Kingdom took part.
They answered surveys before and after the trial. Their answers were then compared with 285 employees from 12 companies who worked a normal five-day week.
shows improvements in burnout, job satisfaction, mental health and physical health—a pattern not observed in 12 control companies.
Three key factors mediate the relationship: improved self-reported work ability, reduced sleep problems and decreased fatigue. The results indicate that income-preserving 4-day workweeks are an effective organizational intervention for enhancing workers' well-being.
[...] "We know when people are really stressed and burnt out and not sleeping well, productivity doesn't just continue upwards," Dr Sander said.
Who wouldn't want to work one day less per week for the same pay ...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-22/four-day-work-week-health-burnout/105555392
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02259-6
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 26 2025, @04:47PM (2 children)
Financial insecurity is the way you get other people to do your chores. The fact some are born with lots of tokens and some are born with none means the ones with more tokens get their chores done for them. Because that's how life works, don't you see?
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday July 26 2025, @11:12PM
>The fact some are born with lots of tokens and some are born with none means the ones with more tokens get their chores done for them. Because that's how life works, don't you see?
When I was in kindergarten (at the most expensive private school in two counties), they were teaching my classmates and I "the golden rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Thing was, I was there because my parents were teachers in the public schools, and horrified at how that was working in the early 1970s, so they sunk an outrageous portion of their income on my school tuition.
My 14 or so kindergarten classmates, meanwhile, were learning the real golden rule at home: "he who has the gold, makes the rules." - from their parents who had most of the gold.
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(Score: 2) by sjames on Monday July 28 2025, @07:48PM
And then, those with few or no tokens get fed up (definitely not literally) and chop your head off and take yours. That too is how life works.