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Seventy companies in Britain are now trying out a shorter work week. It is a six-month trial started by a non-profit community called 4 Day Week Global. The four-day week movement aims to raise business productivity, improve workers’ health, and build stronger social and family ties. It believes that if workers work fewer days in a week, there will be fairer opportunities for women. It will be good for the planet too.
Will Singapore workers see the four-day work week happen sometime? Join us as ST's senior correspondent Krist Boo hosts Dr Alex Soojung-Kim Pang from 4 Day Week Global and Ms Louisa Lee, CEO of DP Dental, which adopted the four-day work week 1.5 years ago.
Highlights (click/tap above):
1:53 What does the four-day work week really mean?
4:37 Can it work in Asia? Is 4 Day Week Global planning to bring the trial to Singapore?
9:26 After 1.5 years, has the four-day week worked as hoped at DP Dental?
14:25 How do we measure productivity with a short work week?
16:13 Could the four-day week be transformational for women?
Produced by: Krist Boo (kristb@sph.com.sg), Ernest Luis, Teo Tong Kai and Eden Soh
Edited by: Teo Tong Kai
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