Hardly surprising...
Image via PixabayA company that introduced a four-day working week has found it dramatically improved the mental health of staff.
MCL Consulting Group in Brighton tested out the idea of a four-day working week for six months and found that its staff, and business, ended up a lot better off.
They kicked off the trial in March of this year and since then, the company found 87% of staff felt their mental health had improved, short-term absences had reduced by 40% and productivity also increased by 25%.
According to UNILad, the idea was the brainchild of CEO David Stone, who felt his 54 employees across the UK, Germany and France could manage their five days worth of work in four days. He said:
"We’re an output-based business, so we’ve always been driven by results, rather than the time people spend at their desks.
"I considered that if people could be really self-critical of the time they spend at work, cutting down the time spent scrolling and socialising, then we’d be able to give them Fridays off.
"The results generated during the six-month trial have led us to implement a four-day week working model on a permanent basis."
