Eine neue internationale Studie ergab, dass eine viertägige Arbeitswoche ohne Lohnverlust das Wohlbefinden der Arbeitnehmer erheblich verbessert hat, einschließlich niedrigerer Burnout-Raten, besserer psychischer Gesundheit und höherer Arbeitszufriedenheit, insbesondere für Personen, die die Stunden am meisten reduzierten.
https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/four-day-workweek-productivity-satisfaction/
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Shocking. Working less hours with the same pay results in life improvements.
Yeah… we will get that from the cold, de@d hands of the elite class. It is serfdom all over again! The world is run by corporate kings, and their kingdoms have no borders and penetrate every civilized country.
**A new international study found that a four-day workweek with no loss of pay significantly improved worker well-being, including lower burnout rates, better mental health, and higher job satisfaction, especially for individuals who reduced hours most.**
A new, large-scale international study, led by Boston College, examined the impact of moving to a four-day workweek with no reduction in pay on employee well-being and garnered results that will probably not come as a surprise to most people.
The study involved 2,896 employees from 141 companies across six countries: the US, UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. These companies were compared with 12 control companies that didn’t implement the four-day week.
Employees were surveyed before and after a six-month trial of reduced work hours. Their employee companies had reorganized workflows to cut back on unnecessary tasks such as meetings, enabling employees to work 80% of their original hours for 100% of their pay. There was no mandated format. Companies chose their own way to reduce hours, which meant that employees did not always work a strict four-day week.
The researchers measured work-related well-being, including burnout and job satisfaction; mental and physical health; and mediators such as work ability, job demands, schedule control, job support, sleep quality, fatigue, and exercise frequency. They found that in the intervention group, the average workweek fell from around 39 hours to 34 hours. The control group’s hours remained unchanged (around 39 to 40 hours a week). Compared to the control group, employees working a four-day week showed a reduction in burnout, higher job satisfaction, improved mental health, and slight but significant gains in physical health.
The researchers observed that larger reductions in personal work hours equaled greater improvements in well-being. Company-wide reductions also helped, but did not show a dose-response effect like individual changes did.
For those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02259-6
Study published in the Journal of Self-Evidently Obvious Conclusions.