No Canadian companies involved in a shortened workweek trial intend to revert back to a five-day week, new research from 4 Day Week Global shows.

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    If some companiea can offer fulltime or hybrid WFH to have an advantage in getting employees, some others will.offer 4 day workweeks to be competitive with other companies. Canada can start the trend.

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      It would help if the governments did it… but I can’t see them being a leader on this one because of the optics.

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        Government treats public servants like shit because it’s popular to do so. Nobody wants to believe their tax dollars are going toward somebody having a good job when they themselves don’t have a good job.

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        help if the governments did it

        You’d be interested to know that was the sticking point on the recent Fed strike.

        And they got it.

        I know dozens of people working on unionized government work who were WFH 100% since CoViD day, and haven’t been back. Desks were sold/scrapped, leased released, space repurposed. Onsite are a handful of people, usually rotating assignments, for things like shipping/receiving, and the WFH language is baked into the latest contract there too.

        The gov people ARE making progress.

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      I wish I were that hopeful but I dunno I don’t really see it starting. I’d love to be wrong though.