Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 October 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Four-Day Working Week: Discussion

Ms Maeve McElwee:

We have seen different examples of how organisations have introduced reduced working hours. We are not especially advocating for any type of flexibility. In some of the trials and reduced working hours, we have seen that people work a longer working day and then have perhaps Friday, Monday or the chosen day off. In other situations, they work exactly the same number of hours as they previously did, Monday to Friday, and have the advantage of an extra day they are not working. There are different ways of doing it and we are not advocating for one or other, in particular.