Working people generally go to office 5-6 days a week. This is the system in most places in India. There are two days holiday in banks in one week and two days in the other week. Currently, bank employees are demanding two days leave every week. On the other hand, many countries are working on new experiments, which have started a new debate on work culture all over the world.
If results are good then permanent arrangement
This new debate on work culture is about working four days a week. Many countries are working on making people work only four days a week and rest for the remaining three days. Now the latest name added to this new debate is Scotland, which has started using the 4-day work week. If this experiment gives good results then consideration will be given to making the new system permanent.
This is the plan of the Scottish Government
According to an ET report, in testing this new system, Scotland has given permission to selected civil servants to work only four days a week. There is a plan to involve various government departments and agencies in this experiment. The Scottish Government wants to see how shortening the workweek reduces the workload on employees and what kind of difference it makes to the work culture.
The debate on 4-day work week has intensified
The Scottish Government has explained this pilot in detail in its Program for Government for 2023-24. The government has started this to know about the possible benefits of reducing working hours. It has been claimed in many studies that reducing the working days and hours increases the output of employees. This is why the debate about 4-day work week has intensified across the world in the last few years.
Britain did the trial last year
Before Scotland, Britain had started such a trial in July last year. Britain’s trial was the world’s largest trial of a 4-day work week so far. In that, for 6 months, employees of about 61 organizations were included in the arrangement of working four days a week and resting three days. After the trial ended, employees were given the option to choose between returning to the old system or maintaining the 4-day work week. Most of the approximately 3000 employees involved in the trial had chosen the 4-day work week.
