Will you work 32 hours from Monday to Sunday?

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A few weeks ago, the 29 -year -old Small Small Small TECH, the 29 -year -old, went to LinkedIn to say he would try a new way to work.

“We are abandoning the work week for four days,” He said Alid Nilses, whose employees just spent two years spent nearly 32 hours a week from Monday to Thursday, with no payment of the five -day week.

He said that this has strengthened production and retaining employees. So he would have gone forward with a three -month trial in a flexible week for 32 hours. Employees can work at any time on any day from Monday to Sunday, anywhere they love.

The idea was to make Lumen SEO, Cardiff Search Engine Optimization, which he founded in 2020, attractive as possible for parents, new carpets and its current seven employees.

The response to his position was fair to say, it was great.

Nearly 1,000 people commented on the idea that many said “epic”, “wonderful” and “amazing”. Many of them asked whether Nilses was employing. (Plan). Some asked the question that comes to my mind first: How can something like this work? How do people know who works when? Do employees feel that they are forced to contact 24/7? How does work remain in response to the needs of its customers?

Nelmes admits that the effort requires discipline. It uses an employee delegation software platform every Monday, depending on the number of hours that each job expects. The correspondence tool allows everyone to know whether or not people are available. A lot of preparation is made for meetings, to avoid wasting time.

Every person must work at the same time for at least two or three hours a week, but Nelmes believes that in general, the world of companies is very industrialized for a digital era. Therefore, it is useful to allow people to form their working hours as possible.

“I would like to claim that, because the employees have more time outside the focused work and the organized regiment, they tend to enter the office with more ideas,” he says.

So far, Lumin seems strange.

The Foundation of the Week in the United Kingdom for 4 days is encouraged for a week for 32 hours and four days for years, but its campaign manager, Joe Ryle, says that most companies that adopt work ideas are four days a week.

He said that a minority of organizations tried 32 hours over five days a week. But he did not know any full copy of the lummen from 32 hours for seven days.

I can see why some people, if they are in the white collar sector and have a company like LUMEN, whose employees do a lot of work individually, on tasks such as writing company materials.

They will also need a president like Nelmes, who loves to travel and winter in the Canary Islands for weeks every time. (“You meet a lot of interesting people and he is more healthy.”) I am sure that it will help if the work is small.

However, LUMEN trial is proportional to the shift on which the epidemic increases to a more flexible action, which has continued on a larger scale longer than many expectations, Including me.

The four -day traditional week itself has proven that it is stubborn than what critics expected, although perhaps Not Some activists also hoped.

The work site already says that the share of the four -day weeks has increased significantly since 2020 in the United States, Germany, France, Canada and the United Kingdom. But it is still less than 1 percent, even in the UK, which has the largest share of the five countries.

In 2022, Belgium gave workers the right to request a week for four days, but only by intensifying the existing hours, not cutting them. Other regions experienced the idea, as well as many companies.

Of the 61 organizations who participated in a senior trial for a period of six months in the United Kingdom in 2022, 56 The 4 -day Week Foundation says, which has now decided to continue with the model, which has now assaulted more than 230 organizations for four days. Most have 10 to 50 employees. The largest is ATOM, the application -based bank, which includes about 470 employees. Many in sectors such as technology and marketing. But there is no doubt that a number by presidents like Nelmes are convinced that this is the path of the future and they are young. Their ideas may be committed longer than you think.