00:00it was quite a significant study of over 3 000 employees across over 140 organizations in six
00:07countries and so what they did is take a control group of organizations and then this group of 140
00:13companies and they made an intervention beforehand to say how can we change perhaps the way we work
00:19to get more efficiency and then they did a six-month trial looking at the effects of employees
00:25working four days a week so there were significant effects for both health and well-being for
00:29employees and for business performance so only 23 companies reported significant data in terms of
00:36revenue but those that did noted a 1.4 percent increase over the trial in terms of revenue
00:43they also found generally increased productivity reduced staff turnover which is a huge cost for
00:49organizations and 32 said this policy had noticeably improved their recruitment as well there are many
00:56things in all businesses that can be done differently that can be done better i think most viewers would
01:01agree that they spend too long in meetings that there are meetings that they don't even need to
01:06have as a meeting that perhaps could be an email or done some other way and there's a lot of what we
01:11call busy work in terms of producing reports sometimes that may be written for people who
01:16don't read them or who are no longer here and so we take work and look at how can we design it better
01:21to be more effective for both employees and to get the outcomes for organizations that really matter
01:27we know there is also research that shows that we're working a lot of unpaid overtime we don't
01:32take our annual leave we have a lot of accrued annual leave and i think part of that is that
01:37organizations haven't restaffed to the levels that they had before the pandemic and so there was
01:43sort of an idea that look we can get away with less staff during this crisis time and while that might be
01:49true for a short period of time i think not replacing those staff and not resourcing correctly
01:54is leading to the really significant rates that we're seeing in terms of burnout and staff stress
02:00and in this trial 39 of employees experienced less stress and 71 found they had lower burnout
02:07and those are huge costs for society
02:09right
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