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In the US in 2016, 43 per cent of employees said they had spent at least some time working remotely. We like these freedoms – but are they good for business? Andrew Barnes thinks so. In late 2017, he read that workers were properly for only a few hours a day, so he decided to experiment with a four-day working week at the trust management company he founded in New Zealand. The idea was that employees would focus more to get their work done quicker, and get a paid day off in .
And they did indeed get the same amount of work done. Economist Helen Delaney at the University of Auckland, who surveyed the staff, says they felt “rested and upon returning to work, which enabled them to sustain the higher performance during the trial period”. She says the exercise has significant interest from trade unions and government.