Making the four-day week work: ‘You’ve got to move to the future’

Businesses who have started offering their staff a four-day working week say this is what the future of employment should look like, RNZ reports. Since the pandemic, many companies have been flirting with the possibility of shorter weeks in order to offer a better work/life balance to its employees and attract more candidates to fill their vacant positions. “You gotta get your head out of the sand and move to the future,” says one ‘four-day-week’ employer. “The hours we’ve been working, I don’t know how many years that has been around now – but it’s time to move to the next stage.”