The 4 Day Week Handbook
Your Guide to Happy Staff, Smarter Working and a Productivity Miracle
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Canbury Press
Published:14th Mar '24
Should be back in stock very soon
'The best guide to increasing your, and most other adults’, leisure time by 50%. With no serious downside'Professor Danny Dorling, University of Oxford
Rising numbers of employers worldwide are switching to a four-day week, making workers happier and organisations stronger.
Written by the director of the UK's 4 Day Week campaign, this easy-to-follow guide shows how businesses, charities, and councils can reap the benefits of introducing smarter working.
It takes anyone considering modernising their hours through the current academic evidence for the benefits of introducing a four-day week – with no loss of pay. It then explains the various steps you should take to adopt this human resources hack.
It tackles:
- The productivity improvements that flow from more energised and focused staff
- The typical challenges faced in running a trial, including part-time workers and bank holidays
- The different approaches to introducing a four-day week, such as staggered and fifth-day stoppage
The 4 Day Week Handbook features case studies from the British economy, with breakouts on individual organisations. There are tips for improving the output of a business and a resources section with the essential information you need to start making progress, including a list of academics and researchers who may be able to help.
As the leader of the 4 Day Week Campaign in the UK, Joe Ryle has years of practical experience working with organisations that have adopted more flexible working.
Explaining why companies are changing, he recaps the changes to our working lives over time. At the turn of the 20th Century, workers routinely toiled for six days a week – until the Ford Motor Company invented the five-day working week, and the 'weekend'.
Now, with longer commutes and more family members employed, the five-day working week no longer works for employers or employees. Stressed-out workers stagger home on a Friday evening and take the weekend to recover, while productivity stagnates.
The 4 Day Week Handbook tracks the strong evidence that shortening working hours provides major benefits for the health and welfare of staff – and for employers. During a trial involving 2,900 workers at 61 organisations in the UK, sick days fell by...
"A four-day working week is long overdue and this book provides a crucial roadmap. One day, we will look back in horror at the fact we worked until we dropped. - Owen Jones, Journalist
"The four-day week is an idea whose time has come. This is an invaluable guide to its benefits but more importantly how to introduce it successfully. It’s a handbook to the future of work.” - John McDonnell MP, former Shadow Chancellor
“Simple, effective, efficient - the best guide to increasing your, and most other adults’, leisure time by 50% - with no serious downside" - Professor Danny Dorling, University of Oxford
"Joe brings together the combined experiences of so many businesses in this book. Reading this will help save people a lot of time and money when moving to a four-day week. A must-read for anyone considering joining the four-day week revolution!" - Claire Daniels, CEO of Trio Media
ISBN: 9781914487194
Dimensions: 216mm x 135mm x 10mm
Weight: unknown
152 pages