{"id":19660,"date":"2021-10-15T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.11onze.cat\/?p=19660"},"modified":"2021-10-15T16:25:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T14:25:09","slug":"four-day-working-shift-more-productive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.11onze.cat\/en\/magazine\/four-day-working-shift-more-productive\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the four-day working shift more productive?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Several companies in Spain are moving towards a four-day working shift, as has already been done in countries such as Iceland, where the experiment has been a success. And the question is inevitable: does this reduction make us more productive, does it improve our well-being?<\/b><\/h3>\n

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\u201cPeople have to work eight hours, rest eight hours and enjoy another eight hours\u201d<\/b>. This was the slogan of the campaign created by Robert Owen in 1817, almost two centuries ago, to regulate working shifts that exploited workers in factories around the world, in the midst of industrialization. The proposal eventually succeeded, country after country, and reached Catalonia 100 years later.<\/span><\/p>\n

Specifically, in 1919, thanks to <\/span>La Canadenca<\/b><\/a> strike, <\/span>the workers’ movement that won the eight-hour working shift in our country.<\/b> Today, more than 100 years after that historic moment, it is a good time to ask ourselves if a four-day working shift (35 hours) would be more productive?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Success, experiment, or imposition?<\/b><\/h3>\n

Iceland, with a population of just over 350,000, has been the pioneer country <\/b>in pushing for shorter working shifts. Between 2015 and 2019, a pilot test was carried out among public sector workers, who went from working the usual 40 hours to 35, and with the same salary. The results were a success.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As analyzed by <\/span>Iprofesional<\/b><\/a>, the workers who participated were more productive and improved their well-being. In short, they felt a better balance, both at work and in their personal lives, reduced the level of work-related stress and had more free time to dedicate to their families and hobbies. The experiment was so positive that, today, a large part of Iceland’s workers, approximately 86%, enjoy shorter working shifts for the same salary.<\/span><\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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