The clock is ticking: 40% of Aussies expect a four-day work week within five years

- 40% of Australian professionals believe a four-day work week will become a reality within the next five years
- 21% say it’ll take up to a decade to become reality
4 Day Week Global’s 100-80-100 model
- All work stops on day five and an organisation shuts down entirely for one extra day a week;
- Teams or individual staff members stagger their days off;
- Different departments adopt different work patterns, such as shorter days worked across all five days;
- Hours are seasonally adjusted, with staff working 32 hours on average per week across the year.
Lessons from abroad
About Hays
Hays plc (the "Group") is the world’s leading specialist in recruitment and workforce solutions, such as Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) and Managed Service Provider (MSP). The Group is the expert at recruiting qualified, professional, and skilled people worldwide, being the market leader in the UK, Germany, and Australia and one of the market leaders in Continental Europe, Latin America, and Asia. The Group operates across the private and public sectors, dealing in permanent positions, contract roles and temporary assignments. As of 31 December 2024, the Group employed over 10,300 staff operating from 225 offices in 33 countries.
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