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    Workers are willing to compromise remote work for a shorter workweek
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    Remote work dominates workplace conversations, with many considering it a top priority in job selection. Yet, here’s a surprising finding: 3 in 5 workers would prefer a four-day workweek, even if it meant working fully in the office.

    This is just one highlight from our latest report, Rethinking the Workweek: The Push for Fewer Work Hours, More Life. The report dives into employee perspectives on worktime reduction, unveiling their preferences, challenges, and trade-offs.
    The report contains these insights and more:
    • Momentum for change: A sizable majority (58.5%) of respondents reported their organizations have already implemented shorter workweeks (10%) or see them as ‘highly likely’ (20%) or ‘certain and inevitable’ (10%) within the next five years, with an additional 18.5% anticipating this change within 1-2 years.
    • Massive trade-offs: In addition to trading remote flexibility for a shorter week, over half (58%) said they’d be willing to forgo at least one year of pay increases for a shorter workweek, with 15.5% willing to give up three or more years of future pay raises.
    • Productivity commitment: 78.5% of respondents expressed high motivation to find efficiencies and boost productivity if it meant the opportunity to work fewer hours, with 40.5% giving their motivation a perfect 10/10.
    • The overwork paradox: Despite calls for fewer hours, 38% of respondents reported overworking most weeks, with 16% doing so every week. Top causes include last-minute requests and deadlines (48.5%), unsustainable workloads and lack of resources (37%), and unreasonable leadership expectations (22%).

    The report is published here.

    For all high-resolution charts, please see here and some attached.

     

     
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