4-Day Work Week Future Update
Dear Friends & Neighbors,
(Please click on red links & note magenta)
For updated global info & data on COVID-19, please click HERE. For updated global data & graphs on COVID-19, please click HERE. For COVID-19 cases and death counts in USA by state, please click HERE. For COVID-19 cases in Florida via Florida COVID Action, please click HERE. For COVID-19 cases in Florida, via Florida state government, please click HERE.
As a result of many of our readers’ request after the post on 4-Day Work Week Gains Momentum, Windermere Sun has some updates on the prospect of 4-Day Work Week.
Since the pandemic sparked renewed conversations about work-life balance, more industries are looking at the benefits of a four-day workweek. CBS News’ Elaine Quijano reports on the issue. Then, Boston College professor Juliet Schor discussed why the four-day workweek is growing in popularity, in the video published on March 14, 2023, by CBS News, as “Growing popularity of the 4-day workweek | The Shifting Workplace“, below:
‘The Big Saturday Show’ co-hosts weigh in on the four-day work-week bill as it gets pushback from multiple industries, in the video published on March 11, 2023, by Fox News, as “Is it time for a 4-day work-week ?” below:
An oped in Bloomberg argued that working less makes people sad. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks, in the video published on March 11, 2023, by The Young Turks, as “Bloomberg: 4-Day Work Weeks Make People Sad“, below:
Some companies are finding that four-day work weeks, rather than five, are increasing employees’ productivity. NBC News’ Tom Costello has more details on the study and why some companies are hesitant to embrace the change, in the video published on Feb 22, 2022, by NBC News, as “Four-day work weeks may improve employees’ productivity, study finds“, below:
A trial of a four-day workweek in Britain, billed as the world’s largest, has found that an overwhelming majority of the 61 companies that participated from June to December will keep going with the shorter hours and that most employees were less stressed and had better work-life balance, in the video published on Feb 22, 2023, by WCNC, as “4-workweek makes happier employees, study finds: #WakeUpCLT To Go“, below:
A recent four day work week pilot program that just wrapped up in the U.K. was impressive in both it’s scope and it’s simplicity, in the video published on Feb 24, 2023, by KARE 11, as “Dreaming of a 4-day work week or extended paid vacation? It could be closer than you think“, below:
A pilot program in the UK is testing out a new four-day workweek, in the video published on Feb 28, 2023, by THV11, as “Looking at a 4 day work week“, below:
Gathered, written, and posted by Windermere Sun-Susan Sun Nunamaker More about the community at www.WindermereSun.com
We Need Fair Value of Solar
~Let’s Help One Another~
Please also get into the habit of checking at these sites below for more on solar energy topics:
www.kiva.org/team/sunisthefuture
