Four-Day Workweek’s Overwhelming Success

B2 – Upper Intermediate

Throughout the years, governments and employers have been spending loads of effort to improve employees’ work-life balance.

One of the ideas is the four-day workweek that has been around for years even before the pandemic started. It is in which workers work fewer numbers of hours or days while still being paid the same amount. This concept is starting to gain international attention. In fact, some countries have started experimenting with it, one of which is Iceland.

Click the article and read how the four-day workweek experiment turned out in Iceland.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57724779

Discussion Questions:

  1. What is your reaction and thoughts on this news? What does it mean for all workers around the world?
  2. How did the four-day workweek experiment turn out in Iceland?
  3. Do you think a four-day workweek at your office would affect your productivity?
  4. What are some effects of a good work-life balance?
  5. Do you think a four-day workweek will become the norm in the future? Why or why not?
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2 replies on “Four-Day Workweek’s Overwhelming Success”

1. In Spain we are used to five working days and free weekends, being able to balance to four working days and three holidays at week, would improve the reconciliation with personal life.
2. Productivity remained the same or improved in the majority of workplaces.
3. I think that productivity would increase because people would be more motivated to work, but I wonder if in the longer term productivity could decrease again.
4. I only see advantages: job satisfaction, stress reduction, great personal balance, better health, great motivation…
5. I don’t think so. We are used to a different work model and it’s very difficult to change the mentality of companies.

Keep practicing your writing skills through this exercise.

Here is a sentence you can revise:

In Spain we are used to five working days and free weekends, being able to balance to four working days and three holidays at week, would improve the reconciliation with personal life.

In Spain, we are used to five working days and weekends off. To be able to do four working days and three days off a week would improve the balance between work and personal life.

Until your next entry!

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