India Is Planning To Adopt A 4-Day Work Week But With 12-Hour Work Days, And People Have Mixed Feelings About It

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In 2019, Microsoft Japan shifted to a 4-day work week and noticed a 40% increase in productivity. In 2020, Unilever New Zealand started a year-long experiment on whether a four-day work week should be extended to its 155,000 employees across the globe as well.

Now, India is considering the same. Kinda.

As the government finalizes the rules for the new labour codes, the Labour Ministry began talking about giving flexibility to companies to have four working days instead of five or six.

The new labour codes could provide companies with the flexibility of four working days in a week, even as the working hours limit of 48 hours for a week will remain “sacrosanct”, Labour and Employment Secretary Apurva Chandra said.

This implies that there would be longer working hours if the working days were reduced. For example, a 4 working day week would have to meet the 48-hour weekly work hours, resulting in daily shifts of 12 hours, which will correspondingly reduce if there is five-day or six-day working week. And the Internet is having mixed feelings about this.