Increased productivity and improved staff wellbeing were among the results of a year-long trial of the four-day week by the Scottish government.

Staff at the two organisations reported less work-related stress and greater satisfaction with their jobs and work-life balance.

Almost all workers (98%) at SOSE believed the four-day week trial improved motivation and morale, while there was a decrease in workers taking time off sick and a 25% fall in those taking sick days for psychological reasons.

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[–] 51 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Now watch them still not implement it. Our overlords demand we toil in misery.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    Meanwhile the US is turning everyone into slave labor….haha, who am I kidding? Slaves.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    So far, this is the most prescient comment to me. If the low-rate dictator currently running the US allows people like Thiel to do whatever they want, that’s probably where we are headed.

    Also, props for “Nerd-reich”

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    But the people in positions to make it happen don't give a crap about staff wellbeing, just that they're getting their money's worth of you (even if it DOES improve productivity - they'll ask you why you can't be even MORE productive with an extra day).

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