Ashish Kothari reports that companies switching to a four-day workweek saw gains in productivity and revenue, plus employees slept better, exercised more, and felt less burned out. Workers valued the extra time off more than higher pay.
So once the productivity and the revenue and the hard business metrics were laid down, we were able to go into how employees felt about this. And this is where we really saw the gains. So we saw reported dropout in burnout, gains in sleep, gains in exercise, feelings of workability. And that's really important. If I feel that I'm able at work, then my capacity is unlocked. So I always call that the capacity play. And the percentages, I mean, if I gave you a synthesized version of it, there were slight differences between different countries. But overall, you were seeing incredible productivity gains. I mean, wellbeing gains. So the softer metrics, which really counted for me was this overall sense that my staff feel better, they're resting better, they're performing better, they were more engaged, they're more loyal, they value the time back over remuneration.
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