A Multi-National Mega Corp Trialled The 4-Day Work Week Got Great Results So Let’s Goooo

Unilever will trial a four day work week for its Aussie staff later this year after a successful trial in New Zealand. If even this anti-strike company reckons its workers are better off with a four day work week, that’s probably a good sign that it works! The multinational mega corporation includes well known brands like Dove, Magnum (the ice cream, not the condoms), Lynx, Sunsilk, Rexona and Ben & Jerry’s. Basically, it’s huge (it operates in 190 countries) so it has *a lot* of staff. Unilever completed an 18-month trial of the four-day work week in its New Zealand branch and lo and behold, the results were pretty damn successful. The 80 staff members involved all retained their full pay but worked four days a week instead of five. The trial finished in June and saw a huge 34 per cent drop in people ditching work, a 33 per cent drop in stress and a 67 (!!) per cent drop in work-life conflict. On top of all that, the staff still delivered 100 per cent of the business’ targets despite only working 80 per cent of the time.

A 4 day work week. 2 days to attend to home and family issues. 1 day completely for yourself. We don’t need to debate this for the next 5 years.
Global outputs will soar.

— Lorenzo Davids (@UrbanLo) October 29, 2022