{"id":1473,"date":"2011-10-18T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=1473"},"modified":"2011-10-16T01:01:57","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T05:01:57","slug":"the-benefits-of-moving-to-a-4-day-workweek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2011\/the-benefits-of-moving-to-a-4-day-workweek\/","title":{"rendered":"The Benefits of Moving To a 4-Day-Workweek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/101611_0454_TheBenefits1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Faced with a budgetary crisis, Jon Huntsman, the governor of Utah imposed a four day work week where employees spent an additional two hours in the office each day. It was a plan that was incredibly successful and led to a variety of benefits including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The number of sick days fell by 9%<\/li>\n<li>Reduced commuter traffic lead to a significant reduction in air pollution<\/li>\n<li>82% of workers were happier under the change<\/li>\n<li>Waiting time for state services actually fell<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more about whether or not we should implement this in the wider economy as well as what private enterprise has to say about the idea click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/opinion\/commentators\/johann-hari\/johann-hari-we-dont-need-this-culture-of-overwork-1861188.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/opinion\/commentators\/johann-hari\/johann-hari-we-dont-need-this-culture-of-overwork-1861188.html\">The Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faced with a budgetary crisis, Jon Huntsman, the governor of Utah imposed a four day work week where employees spent an additional two hours in the office each day. It was a plan that was incredibly successful and led to a variety of benefits including: The number of sick days fell by 9% Reduced commuter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1482,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions\/1482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}