Want to work a 4-day week? You now have two extra months to convince your boss

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The nonprofit 4 Day Week SA and its coalition of partner organisations have extended the deadline for companies to sign up to be part of a "pioneer pilot" study in South Africa, where employees will be paid 100% of their salaries to work 80% of the hours they did before. And that makes for two more months to convince your boss to give it a try. The study is due to start in early 2023, and initially the deadline to commit to participation had been set at a fairly tight end-October. Now, say those involved, companies can sign a collaboration agreement as late as 15 January. The trial itself is due to run for six months between February and July, but there is some run-up work to be done, such as establishing baseline metrics against which the success or failure of the change can be measured.
7 Nov 2022 1PM English South Africa Business News · Investing

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