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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: 3, Touché) by gawdonblue on Saturday July 26 2025, @11:26PM (1 child)
Using the military for anything other than (small "d") defence is wrong, but empires will always justify its use otherwise by claiming that it was necessary for some unjustifiable reason (these days it's usually false claims about WMDs).
But to say that the military does very little that is constructive except at tremendous expense seems short-sighted. Space travel, the internet and GPS were all military programmes that benefit many of us every day.
Two of those (space travel/GPS) were both incredibly expensive but the costs have come down over time and they are now usable by the vast majority of countries and individuals.
Rolling out the internet has possibly cost more than the total spent in space but the costs were born by civilian entities and the military programme that developed it was not that expensive, and we're all here using it now.
(Never thought that I'd ever defend the military. Maybe 1960s military programmes weren't as bad as current ones.)
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday July 26 2025, @11:34PM
>Space travel, the internet and GPS were all military programmes that benefit many of us every day.
I prefer the NASA approach: obvious military but with a figleaf of "in peace, for all mankind."
>the military programme that developed it was not that expensive, and we're all here using it now.
DARPA is a strange bird, not always useless, rarely as beneficial as they seem to be aiming for.
>Maybe 1960s military programmes weren't as bad as current ones.
Are you referring to Vietnam, or the end of the Korean adventure?
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