Four-day work week success in Germany
euroweeklynews.com
Germany trialled a new four-day work week with great success, as 73% of companies will continue to only work four days out of the week.

They call it the ‘100-80-100’ concept. This means employees will retain 100% of their salary, work 80% of the time, but contribute 100% of their output still.

  • justsomeguy@lemmy.world
    1121·
    2 days ago

    It’s a bit misleading to phrase it as they did. Germany didn’t trial this. A few companies in Germany did. How many? Well fuck me if I know because the author does their best to keep any absolute numbers out of the article. I’m all for reducing work time since our productivity has easily risen enough to allow for that (once we eat the rich) but don’t try to sugarcoat it.

    • MisterFrog@lemmy.world
      4·
      12 hours ago

      Journalists (as a whole) are some of the worst when it comes to referencing. “A report from organisation found…” yes, okay, what’s it called, when was I released, better yet LINK THE DAMN REPORT.

      Journalists, why you so bad at this?

    • kerf@lemmy.world
      221·
      2 days ago

      Yes, I feel like this happens when these articles pop up from time to time. Like, it’s a good thing a few companies are trying it out successfully, you don’t have to falsely make it sound like the whole country switched

    • Boomkop3@reddthat.com
      11·
      23 hours ago

      Few enough that I can’t find anything about it apart from some forum. And I’m right next door. Not even my german friends an hour away mentioned it.