Another city shortens working time. It will start in July

At the end of April, the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Policy presented the results of analyzes regarding the introduction of a 4-day working week in Poland. The ministry announced the launch of the pilot program shortening the time while maintaining the same remuneration. Details are to be known until the end of June.

4-day work week in Szczecinek

Meanwhile, some are not waiting for government pilotes and are already deciding to test shorter working time. This is a case of Szczecinek, where from July 1 employees of the local City Hall will work shorter. Details were revealed by the mayor of the city Jerzy Hardie-Douglas, in an interview with the local government portal.

– The 35-hour work week will consist in the fact that employees will work four days a week and have a change once in one month a free Friday, on another Monday, i.e. each time they will have an extended weekend. However, the office will be open to residents, so far, five days a week – explains the local government.

The Włodarz Szczecinek admits that shortening the working week turned out to be so attractive that “almost overnight the problem of lack of interest in working in the town hall disappeared”.

Hardie-Douglas believes that the changes will not reduce the quality of the office’s work. – This is an experiment, but I am convinced that he will succeed – He summarizes the mayor of Szczecinek in an interview with the portal.

The local government reveals that he consulted in this matter with the authorities of Włocławek and Leszno, where the 35-hour work week is already functioning and-as Hardie-Douglas says-“everyone is satisfied and the quality of work did not fall.”

The recent SW Research survey for “Wprost” shows that the introduction of a 4-day work week supports 47.1 percent. Poles. However, not much less, because 38.5 percent respondents do not correspond to this solution. 14.4 percent respondents have no opinion on this issue.