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Australia gears up for 4-day work week

News • 15th Feb 2023 • 1 Min Read

Australia gears up for 4-day work week

Life @ Work#Future of Work

Author: Ajinkya Salvi Ajinkya Salvi
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According to various media sources, the ANMF federation said in its submission that the shift would “enable all employees a better opportunity to balance work with personal responsibilities.”

Australian Nurse and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) has recently submitted a federal parliamentary inquiry, proposing a decrease in the full-time weekly work from 38 hours to 32 hours, or four days instead of the usual five.

According to various media sources, the federation said in its submission that the shift would “enable all employees a better opportunity to balance work with personal responsibilities.”

ANMF also said that the 38 -hour work week, originally introduced in Australia in 1983, “was set in consideration of a very different domestic context."

For ANMF Victorian branch assistant secretary Paul Gilbert, the current notion that 38 hours is a “magical number” is already outdated and needs significant reconsideration, 7News.com.au reported.

“All of the evidence shows that a (four-day work week) pays itself off,” Gilbert said. “At the moment, we have an incredible number of people on leave, fatigued.”

In fact, the shift to a four-day week has already been implemented in some workplaces, revealing positive results. HRD previously reported on a trial run, launched in early August, which had “very encouraging” feedback.

Our Community founder Denis Moriarty noted that employee productivity has significantly improved since the company switched to a four-day working week.

“They do more work in the four days, they come in more energised, they’re more committed,” Moriarty said, according to 7News.com.au.

The news outlet also said that Australia needs much catching up to do with the different countries implementing the reform, such as Iceland, in which 85% of its workforce now only works four days a week.

Reports also showed that trials concerning a four-day workweek are set to begin in Canada, the UK, the US, Spain, Japan, and New Zealand.

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