BRITAIN - Employees at 61 companies worked an average of 34 hours across four days between June-December 2022, while earning their existing salary. Of those, 56 companies, or 92%, opted to continue like that, 18 of them permanently. A number of participants said job retention and recruitment had improved during the trial.
ITALY - Italy's biggest bank Intesa Sanpaolo last year offered staff the option of a four-day working week on the same salary from this January, the first such move by a major Italian employer. Intesa said it was looking at shortening the working week to curb its rising electricity bills. GERMANY - A pay deal agreed last April for tens of thousands of workers at Germany's public-sector banks also included a one-hour reduction to a 38-hour working week from 2024. Germany has been a forerunner in adapting working weeks, either as part of wage-bargaining or to avoid redundancies in economic slowdowns. Bosses at car giant Volkswagen said back in the 1990s that a four-day week was hurting competitiveness and pushed for it to be increased.
Oh? 'quiet quitting' isn't shaming the labor grunts to knock down the barricades and storm back to their cubicles? And who is seeing it as lose-lose beyond management?
Oh how gracious of master to let us have part of our existence back :/
Until they realise the ‘analysis’was done by a lobby group and used lockdown 2021 as the base year to calculate their dramatic 34 percent improvement in turnover. A scam that many ‘journalists’ have not seen through