Many companies and companies are currently discussing the four-day week. What speaks for it – and what speaks against it.
She was about to close down her shop. Jessica Hansen, master painter from Osterby near Eckernförde, saw no way out. “No matter how hard we tried, we couldn’t get out of the stress,” she says today. She had enough orders, but she lacked staff. Sometimes she did not receive a single application for job advertisements. The consequences: overtime for everyone, but months of waiting times for customers. A good year ago, the head of the small company decided: before she actually gave up, she wanted to dare something big. Instead of closing down, Hansen introduced the four-day week for their journeymen and trainees – with the same salary. Only the boss herself and two office workers still have to work on Fridays.
Source: Stern
