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The Azorean government has announced that it plans to begin testing the four-day workweek in the public sector in 2025, as they claim this move will increase productivity through a sense of responsibility. Duarte Freitas, the secretary of Finance, Planning and Public Administration, has emphasised while speaking to journalists in Ponta Delgada that the pilot experiences mean that the four-day workweek "could be more or less extended" to the entire public service.
As stated by Duarte Freitas, "We intend to have a design by the end of the year so that, next year, we can start with pilot projects to implement the four-day week, which will not, in the initial phase at least, be generalized to the entire public service". As he asserted, "a motivated and well-trained public or private sector employee, with continuous training, will be more productive," taking into account that it is a sense of duty.
The four-day workweek is already being considered by businesses in the Azores, according to the secretary, who also noted that this might lead to "improving productivity" in the private sector. "The four-day week does not mean that it is fixed. There are businesspeople and services that can have a four-day week and the fifth day being teleworking. There are businesspeople who can have three days of physical presence and two days of teleworking ", Duarte Freitas revealed.
In the Regional Government program (PSD/CDS-PP/PPM), approved in March by the Azorean parliament, the Azorean executive indicates that it wants to create a "pilot project for the four-day week/telework (also extendable to the private sector), always in common agreement with the worker and the employer, to better reconcile their professional life with their personal and family life”. Although the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Azores (CCIA) acknowledge the four-day working week could be applicable in the public sector, it reinforces that to apply the same measures in the private sector will be a harder challenge.
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Who thinks up this stuff? "Lazy" people...and I use that term loosely. If you think they're already spending too much company time checking their social media, wait until you send them home to "work." "Motivated...with a sense of duty?". The self-entitlement generation is the primary work force today...the give me the most benefits for the least amount work; in fact I shouldn't even have to work, the government should give me everything since my parents can't take care of me anymore generation. I know...when I started in the work force a few decades ago, I worried about getting older and someone younger eventually pushing me out and taking my place....fast forward to now....I'm not worried at all! It's a totally different work ethic. I have adult nephews that won't even take the garbage out for their parents.
By William from Other on 27 Apr 2024, 12:08
Hey, look at William. Another clueless old moaning boomer. Can't wait until you are all gone. I work my butt off 60 hours a week. You could never keep up with me.
By Jeff BB from Beiras on 29 Apr 2024, 10:52
Boomers are an industrious group, in all aspects of life....family, career, caring about other people. So thanks for the compliment. We will be around for a while yet. The up and coming generation, the ones demonstrating on college campuses right now, reminds everyone of the boomers in the late sixties, early seventies fighting for equal rights and rallying against injustices. Unfortunately the world has to suffer through the current self-centered, lackadaisical, excuse-driven generation in the meantime, which, as had been warned, would allow authoritarian elements to creep back into society and governments. The current generation couldn't build on the past, they had to reinvent the wheel. Now that war is becoming popular again, people are waking up.
Congratulations on working 60 hours a week and not crying for 35. I dont know how long that can last until you wear out your body and mind. Remember the story of the tortoise and the hare. I would certainly hope a younger person could work circles around me, but they don't make young people like they used to. If I ever move to Portugal, we could share a beer together. As an old person, I would fall asleep...as a younger person, you could have another beer.
By William from Other on 04 May 2024, 13:06