The four-day work week could offer a unique solution to unemployment while taking the pressure off South Africa’s stressed-out workers, says a youth advisory, training, recruitment, and placement organisation. advisory, and placement company.
The four-day workweek could offer a unique solution to unemployment while taking the pressure off South Africa’s stressed-out workers, says a youth advisory, training, recruitment, and placement organisation. advisory, and placement company.
ATS encourages investigating a model where the extra day is used to create a job for unemployed youth. “In light of SA’s high youth unemployment, employees may be accommodating of a trade-off where the extra day enables someone else to put food on the table for themselves and their family via an employment intervention,” said ATS CEO Onyi Nwaneri.
ATS believes it is key to determine what works for your company and what will enable the company as a collective to achieve set goals and objectives. An output and outcome-based culture drives not only productivity but also innovation. A balance where a level of accountability is imposed to incentivise productivity and output/outcome-based delivery is required.
Over the past three-and-a-half months in the UK, 88% of the 3000 participants in the UK say they have managed to keep the same productivity level as the longer work week, according to Singularity Hub.At just over the halfway point of a groundbreaking six-month trial of a four-day week pilot programme in the United Kingdom, data points and qualitative feedback are flowing in.
“While for most organisations, the pilot prompts many pleasing discoveries and outcomes – a lot of businesses have more flexibility and nimbleness among their people and teams that leaders often know at the outset – there is friction for others, and this can be based on a variety of factors, many of which can be addressed or substantially improved in the pilot itself.”
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