During 4 Day Work Week Trial Men Spent More Time on Child Care

Among all workers, 60-percent said it was easier to combine their jobs with child care.

More studies have been done on the four day work week. This time…men participated in what was the world’s biggest trial. The results: positive effect on time spent with their children. That’s according to results published by the non-profit organization ‘Four Day Work Week Global.’ Starting last June, about 29-hundred workers across 60 companies in the United Kingdom worked 80-percent of their usual hours for six months for the same pay in exchange for promising to deliver 100-percent of their usual work. It’s the biggest number of companies to take part in such a trial. Diaries kept during the trial revealed that the time male workers spent looking after their children rose nearly 30 percent. Managers and employees in the trial described how the shorter work week and extra day off changed their lives for the better, giving them more time to run errands, take up hobbies, and simply recharge. Among all workers, 60-percent said it was easier to combine their jobs with child care.