Full-Time British Employees Prepared to Pay for Three-Day Weekends

In a bid to discover if Britons under full-time employment would be prepared to sacrifice a day’s wages in order to receive longer weekends, an independent HR consultancy conducted a study to investigate the matter further.
By: Charlotte Horsfall
 
Aug. 31, 2011 - PRLog -- With the summer holidays coming to an end and Britons in employment starting to feel the ‘holiday blues’, an independent online HR consultancy, http://www.Reabur.com, conducted a study in a bid to discover the attitudes Britons have towards weekends and if they would like them extended; even if it involved a pay decrease.

The study, conducted by http://www.Reabur.com, asked 1,283 Britons in full time employment if they would like their weekends permanently extended and subsequently have their salary decreased accordingly, to which the majority, 51%, said that they be prepared to ‘lose a day’s pay’ in order for the weekend to be lengthened to ‘three days’.

According to the study by  http://www.Reabur.com, a further 14% of the respondents would willingly sacrifice ‘half a day’s wages’ in order to finish work at ‘lunch time on a Friday’, whilst 4% stated that they would prefer the half day to be taken on a ‘Monday morning’.  

Furthermore, 6%, of those who took part in the study said that they would be prepared to ‘permanently lose two paid working days’ in order to receive a ‘four day’ weekend and therefore just attend work three days a week.    

In contrast, 14% of the respondents said that they would be happy to have a longer weekend however, if a permanently longer weekend was implemented across the UK they ‘wouldn’t want’ it at the expense of a deduction in their salary.  

A further 9% of the respondents stated that they felt ‘happy’ with working a five day week with the standard two days for a weekend and ‘wouldn’t want it to change’; whilst 2% of the respondents admitted that they felt ‘impartial’.  

Georgina Read, Co-Managing Director of  http://www.Reabur.com, said the following on the findings:

“These results were surprising as one would assume that everybody would jump at the opportunity of an extended weekend. However, this is why we were careful not to simply ask the respondents if they wanted a longer weekend; we wanted to express the fact that the longer weekend would come at a cost.”

She continued,

“Many companies do offer a shorter working day on a Friday, as people tend to ‘wind down’ at the end of the week, but I it is unlikely starting late on a Monday would be  considered an alternative offering as many employers will expect their staff to  feel reenergised and ready to go ‘full steam’ into the week ahead.

“The respondents who wanted their weekend extended to four days, and willing to reduce their pay, could make a flexible working request to their employer, but do need to consider how their request could impact on the business.”

“Those people who want longer weekends because they aren’t happy in their job, need to look at why they’re not satisfied at work and focus on exploring alternative options.  There is lots of guidance and advice available for employees looking for a change via a good recruitment agency, or a career counsellors willing to work with people to help them reach their goals and increase work prospects”

LINK: http://www.Reabur.com

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For further information on www.Reabur.com, or to arrange an interview with Kirsty Burgess or Kirsty Burgess, please contact Charlotte Horsfall of 10 Yetis Public Relations Agency on charlotte@10yetis.co.uk.  

Editor’s Notes

Reabur are a team of chartered Human Resource professionals and accredited mediators, the core values if the business is taking on the 'people' challenges within a business.

Reabur provide the Human Resources function for both small and large businesses. The consultancy specialise in:

•   Advise what companies can do to enhance the business through the employees, thus providing a platform to increase profits.

•   Provide options on how to tackle performance, sickness and conduct within the workplace, therefore improving productivity.

•   Educate businesses with regards to employment law.

•   Resolve workplace conflict through tried and tested methods of mediation.
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