Four-day working: A new challenge?
The new year brings a window for change. As we set resolutions and decide to build good habits, the companies are also carefully taking steps in which they can improve their work and functioning.
Recently, many of these goals are focused around improving the employee experience (EX). From emerging onboarding processes and promoting candid communications, to making a process of authentic and meaningful performance reviews, companies following a proactive approach to EX have made a great number of advancements in the past few years.
As recession looms over and the skills gap is growing further, EX is a trend that will only keep gaining momentum as business leaders find innovative ways in which to attract and keep top talent.
How can a four-day working week help cybersecurity?
To date, shorter working weeks are being used as a trial by a large number of enterprises. Non-profit 4 Day Week Global in October 2022 announced that it had provided help to 60 North American firms cumulatively getting over 4,000 people to make the shift to a four-day working week.
From lower costs to happier employees, the possible benefits are obvious. And while employees' well-being is mostly at the core of the 4-day week, the fact that there's no pay loss with such initiatives tells us there would not be any dampening of expectations with association to employee performance and output. '
In this matter, a 4-day working week will probably mean stuffing 40-hour workloads into 32-feasible for some, but a reason for worry in cases where this is simply not realistic.
Risks associated with a four-day working week?
There is a major challenge that such a drastic change could actually add to the threat of exhaustion among those employees looking to find relief in high-pressure work environments, making responsibilities sweep away under the rug in areas where there's no room for cutting corners.
With the same responsibilities and not much time to complete them, organizations will have to give something away- not the core activities based upon which an employee's individual performance is measured. But, security practices will soon start to get affected and will fall behind, and employees will be pressurized due to working in a shorter week.
