Germany tries out 4-day work week to tackle labor crunch

Germany tries out 4-day work week to tackle labor crunch

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Germany has recently launched a six-month-long four-day workweek trial which will see employees at 45 companies across the country working one less day per week for the same pay, CE Report quotes Anadolu Agency

The initiative is led by Berlin-based human resource consultancy Intraprenor, together with the collaboration of the non-profit organization 4 Day Week Global (4DWG).

Jan Buhren of Intraprenor told Anadolu that the German economic crisis is seeing changes in the labor market, which made it necessary to trail the four-day work week experiment.

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