{"id":50213,"date":"2018-07-19T01:54:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T23:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/07\/19\/work-less-get-more-new-zealand-firms-four-day-week-an-unmitigated-success\/"},"modified":"2018-07-19T01:54:18","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T23:54:18","slug":"work-less-get-more-new-zealand-firms-four-day-week-an-unmitigated-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=50213","title":{"rendered":"Work less, get more: New Zealand firm&#039;s four-day week an &#039;unmitigated success&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reduced hours for same pay increased work-life balance by 24%, cutting stress levels and boosting commitment The New Zealand company behind a landmark trial of a four-day working week has concluded it an unmitigated success, with 78% of employees feeling they were able to successfully manage their work-life balance, an increase of 24%. Two-hundred-and-forty staff at Perpetual Guardian, a company which manages trusts, wills and estate planning, trialled a four-day working week over March and April, working four, eight-hour days but getting paid for five. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/jul\/19\/work-less-get-more-new-zealand-firms-four-day-week-an-unmitigated-success\" target=\"_blank\">Work less, get more: New Zealand firm&#039;s four-day week an &#039;unmitigated success&#039;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reduced hours for same pay increased work-life balance by 24%, cutting stress levels and boosting commitment The New Zealand company behind a landmark trial of a four-day working week has concluded it an unmitigated success, with 78% of employees feeling they were able to successfully manage their work-life balance, an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}