GET REA DY FOR THE FOUR-DAY WORKING WEEK!
QUICK POLL: Which day of the week do you spend doing the least work? For me, it was always Friday. It’s a running joke that in Cape Town nobody gets anything done on a Friday after 12 pm, but it’s not just Cape Town; trying to get hold of anyone at work after 3 pm on a Friday has always been tricky. The fact is, none of us is 100% productive every single hour of every day. So why not trim the fat?
‘These ideas of working smarter have been around for ages, but the pandemic has pushed us to the point where we’ve decided to start challenging the way we work and see if there’s a better way to do it,’ says Professor Charlene Lew, associate professor and director of internationalisation at the Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria.
With burnout on the rise and productivity losses costing companies money, there’s an argument to be made for allowing employees). New Zealand, the UK and Germany are considering it too.
