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WP Louis Chua 4 day week will help workers have fuller life. - BigBossX - 28-07-2021
Workers’ Party Member of Parliament Louis Chua has called for a four-day work week in light of how Covid-19 has led to a “seismic shift in the workforce culture”.
Speaking in Parliament yesterday during the debate on government support measures for the first two heightened alert phases that began in May, Chua noted that the pandemic has pushed companies to “rapidly adopt new behaviours that would stick and change the trajectory of what it means to work”.
He said that, for instance, companies that are known to be averse to flexible work arrangements are now open to the idea of their employees working remotely.
He cited a report by management consulting firm McKinsey, which showed that 20 per cent to 25 per cent of the workforce in advanced economies could work from home between three and five days a week.
“This represents four to five times more remote work than before the pandemic. While this study was conducted on a global level, it is evident that there has been a seismic shift in the workforce culture,” Chua said.
The idea of a shorter work week, which is not a new concept, has resurfaced over the past year, he noted.
Chua also recalled that Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said during the 2004 National Day Rally that there was a need for a better work-life balance.
“I am not sure why, but hours have become longer, the pace is more intense. Maybe it’s the internet, maybe it’s email, maybe it’s globalisation, but whatever it is, you wake up at six o’clock in the morning, you check your email,” Chua quoted PM Lee as saying.
“Eleven o’clock at night, before you go to sleep, you check it again and next morning, you come back, somebody replied at 2am. How to have children?”
PM Lee was speaking then when announcing the move by the civil service to adopt a five-day week.
Yesterday, Chua told the House: “While (it is) not the only reason for our low birth rates, the ‘five-day work week’ has gone beyond its intended definition and consumed our daily lives.”
He then said that the four-day work week has already been tried and tested by companies and countries worldwide.
He gave the example of Microsoft Japan, which saw a 40 per cent increase in productivity and an overall 94 per cent employee satisfaction rate.
“Iceland’s four-day work week trials were also deemed an overwhelming success with trials in Spain also underway.
“That being said, I am conscious of the fact that not every employee has the privilege to complete their tasks in a four-day work week. Those who deal with external parties, especially, are subjected to the whims and fancy of their clients’ schedule,” Chua said.
A shorter work week not only increases productivity but, more importantly, would allow workers to become “fuller” people outside of their jobs, he added.
RE: Louis Ng 4 day week will help workers have fuller life. - BigBossX - 28-07-2021
Why not?....4 day week with foreigners waiting for your rice bowl will just end up with zero day week when one lose the job.
The approach should be to encourage Sungaporeans to have 7 day work week to compete better with foreigners who are willing to slog for lower pay....
RE: Louis Ng 4 day week will help workers have fuller life. - OLT - 28-07-2021
salary cut 20% can or not?
RE: Louis Ng 4 day week will help workers have fuller life. - menghuii - 28-07-2021
4 days is too many days la
might as well make it 3
sounds better like a b c
but i wonder what bosses will say??
RE: Louis Ng 4 day week will help workers have fuller life. - dynamite - 28-07-2021
(28-07-2021, 10:32 AM)OLT Wrote: salary cut 20% can or not?
Minimum is 30% and maybe 40% for high pay paid civil servants. Like that can employ more people to walk the ground.
RE: Louis Ng 4 day week will help workers have fuller life. - Blasterlord2 - 28-07-2021
Huh? So is Louis Ng or Louis Chua?
RE: Louis Ng 4 day week will help workers have fuller life. - OLT - 28-07-2021
(28-07-2021, 11:35 AM)Blasterlord2 Wrote: Huh? So is Louis Ng or Louis Chua?
chua is wp
ng is pap..
oh TS mixed up in title.
RE: Louis Ng 4 day week will help workers have fuller life. - Sharexchange - 28-07-2021
Poor singaporeans have to work 6.5 days a week and also after home to feed their House n Car n kids. Sad life.
RE: Louis Ng 4 day week will help workers have fuller life. - cityhantam - 28-07-2021
(28-07-2021, 10:32 AM)menghuii Wrote: 4 days is too many days la
might as well make it 3
sounds better like a b c
but i wonder what bosses will say??
RE: Louis Ng 4 day week will help workers have fuller life. - Levin - 28-07-2021
(28-07-2021, 10:32 AM)OLT Wrote: salary cut 20% can or not?
Most probably will come with a salary cut. Maybe more than 20% as employing others to fill in will have other costs other than just salary.
RE: WP Louis Chua 4 day week will help workers have fuller life. - Migrant - 28-07-2021
Damn lazy. Want to work only 4 days.
RE: Louis Ng 4 day week will help workers have fuller life. - OLT - 28-07-2021
(28-07-2021, 01:24 PM)Levin Wrote:(28-07-2021, 10:32 AM)OLT Wrote: salary cut 20% can or not?
Most probably will come with a salary cut. Maybe more than 20% as employing others to fill in will have other costs other than just salary.
wah finally see u here. welcome welcome
RE: WP Louis Chua 4 day week will help workers have fuller life. - dynamite - 28-07-2021
Will help sex life
RE: WP Louis Chua 4 day week will help workers have fuller life. - dynamite - 28-07-2021
(28-07-2021, 01:33 PM)Migrant Wrote: Damn lazy. Want to work only 4 days.
Use backside to think also know 4 days is cannot. 5 days already little work done already
RE: Louis Ng 4 day week will help workers have fuller life. - Levin - 28-07-2021
(28-07-2021, 02:14 PM)OLT Wrote:(28-07-2021, 01:24 PM)Levin Wrote: Most probably will come with a salary cut. Maybe more than 20% as employing others to fill in will have other costs other than just salary.
wah finally see u here. welcome welcome
RE: WP Louis Chua 4 day week will help workers have fuller life. - OLT - 28-07-2021
(28-07-2021, 02:58 PM)dynamite Wrote: Will help sex life
1 day lesser for office romance...
RE: WP Louis Chua 4 day week will help workers have fuller life. - dynamite - 28-07-2021
(28-07-2021, 03:05 PM)OLT Wrote:(28-07-2021, 02:58 PM)dynamite Wrote: Will help sex life
1 day lesser for office romance...
Don't try that. It won't be good in the end.
RE: WP Louis Chua 4 day week will help workers have fuller life. - Levin - 28-07-2021
(28-07-2021, 03:06 PM)dynamite Wrote:(28-07-2021, 03:05 PM)OLT Wrote: 1 day lesser for office romance...
Don't try that. It won't be good in the end.
Rabbit won't eat the grass near its nest? (Can't write Chinese in this forum so have to write Engrish).
RE: WP Louis Chua 4 day week will help workers have fuller life. - Cmpunk - 28-07-2021
5 days per week already consider lucky still want 4 days works per week. Should suggest FT getting the same pay as us.