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The Spanish city of Valencia was founded by veteran Roman soldiers, given land in return for their service in various campaigns. The land of the brave, its very name means valiance. Lucky soldiers. With 300 days of sunshine a year and average temperatures of 19 degrees, it’s already a terrific place to live. But if a recent four-day week pilot programme is pursued, it may soon be even better. Earlier this year Valencia became the first city in the world to trial a four-day working week. Get…

The longer people worked in new efficient ways, the more their workweek shrank over time, a large-scale study shows. The longer people worked in new efficient ways, the more their workweek shrank over time, a large-scale study shows. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to…

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Tuesday, May 30.I’ll wager many of you are looking forward to a four-day work week after the holiday. It feels like a good time to share some readers’ thoughts on making four-day work schedules a year-round reality.Earlier this month, I shared Times reporter Samantha Masunaga’s story about California-based businesses experimenting with a reduced work week. We asked what you thought about shifting the way you work in favor of an added day off. Dozens…

Golden will be embarking on an experiment this summer that could prove to be the envy of every working stiff in Colorado: 40 hours of pay for 32 hours of work. It’s part of the burgeoning four-day-a-week movement that’s been given extra fuel by pandemic disruptions to traditional work schedules over the last three years. Golden will be giving the truncated workweek a try over the last half of 2023 with its police department only — for now. “I think it could be the largest single game changer in retention of government…

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Wednesday, May 17. An experiment is gaining momentum in the Golden State and elsewhere in the U.S. to see how workers and the companies that employ them fare with a four-day workweek.Times business reporter Samantha Masunaga visited two such California-based businesses to ask workers how the experiment is going for them. One was the Oakland-based ThredUp, though the experiment is limited to its salaried corporate employees, which make up 15% of the…

People are more active when they were on holiday, even when they only have a three-day break.University of South Australia’s health researchers are “all in” on the idea of a four-day work week and a long weekend, as global trials and new empirical research show that extra time off can be beneficial for one’s health.By evaluating variations in daily activities prior to, during, and after holidays, the researchers discovered that individuals exhibit more energetic and healthy habits when they are on holiday, even if its…

Sad to say, but we’re about to say goodbye to Printworks.The hope is that this is just a temporary hiatus, but nothing seems to be 100% set in stone and, for a while, it looked like it might be permanent.But it’s not over yet and there’s still a tonne to look forward to. The iconic former printing factory—so iconic, in fact, that one of the best scenes in 2021’s The Batman was filmed there—may be shut from June onwards, but before they go they’ve confirmed the full line-up for the massive four-day closing weekend.Running…

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Credit: Shutterstock A little more than a century ago, most people in industrialized countries worked 60 hours a week—six ten-hour days. A 40-hour work week of five eight-hour days became the norm, along with increased paid holidays, in the 1950s. These changes were made possible by massive increases in productivity and hard-fought…

Working four days instead of five—with the same pay—leads to improved well-being among employees without damaging the company’s productivity. That’s the recently reported result of a four-day workweek test that ran for six months, from June to December 2022, and involved a total of 61 U.K. companies with a combined workforce of about 2,900 employees. During the COVID pandemic, many workers experienced increased stress and even burnout, a state of exhaustion that can make it difficult to meet work goals. “It’s a very huge…