Name: 四天工作週是未來趨勢嗎？ - BBC World Service 深度解析！ (Is a four-day week the future of work? - What in the World podcast, BBC World Service)
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If you look at what the World Health Organization says, regularly working long hours raises the risk of stroke, of heart disease, and

如果看看世界衛生組織怎麼說，長期規律工時會增加中風、心臟病

Japan, for example, has such a strong culture of overwork that they even have a term for death by overwork.

舉例來說，日本有非常強的過勞文化，甚至還為過勞死創了一個詞。

this is what in the World, the podcast for all of your news, trends and talking points from the BBC World Service.

這裡是 World, BBC World Service 的 podcast，為你帶來所有新聞、趨勢和討論話題。

What if every week we could have three mornings of lions instead of two?

如果我們每週有三天 lions 的早晨，而不是兩天呢？

The four day work week is being trialled across the world.

四天工作週正在全球各地進行試驗。

And for some people, it feels like they're finally hitting snooze on the burnout.

對某些人來說，感覺就像他們終於可以 snooze 掉 burnout 了。

A recent study found that people who work four days instead of five say that they feel more productive and they feel better and happier working fewer hours.

最近一項研究發現，工作四天而不是五天的人表示，他們覺得更有生產力，而且工作時間更少，感覺更好、更快樂。

But does this actually work in practice for every type of job and in every culture?

但這在各種工作類型和各種文化中，實際實踐起來真的有效嗎？

And if the results are so clear, then why aren't we doing it already?

而且如果結果這麼明顯，那為什麼我們還沒開始做呢？

Well, here in the studio with me to break this down is the BBC's global health reporter, Sophia Bettyzer.

那麼，BBC 的全球健康記者 Sophia Bettyzer 就在攝影棚裡，要為我們詳細分析。

Why do we even work five days in the first place?

我們一開始為什麼要工作五天呢？

Something that a lot of people are probably asking.

這大概是很多人都在問的問題。

It just feels like a routine that we've got ourselves into.

感覺就像是我們自己陷入了一個例行公事。

But it's sort of only been the case for the last hundred years.

但這其實只發生在過去一百年左右。

Before that, people actually used to work six or even seven days a week.

在那之前，大家其實一週工作六天甚至七天。

So what happened is that at the beginning of the 20th century, factory workers started demanding shorter hours, and

於是，在二十世紀初，工廠的工人開始要求縮短工時，

And it was then popularized by big companies like Ford, which actually realized that if they gave people two days off, they would come back more productive.

接著像福特（Ford）這樣的大公司也推廣了這個做法，他們發現如果讓員工放兩天假，員工回來時生產力會更高。

But if you think about it, 100 years ago, we were a society mostly based on agriculture, on factory workers, and

但如果仔細想想，一百年前，我們的社會主要還是以農業、工廠工人為基礎，

Working hours have stayed essentially the same.

If, if there can be change from seven or six to five, then maybe there can actually be changed from, from five to four.

如果能從七天或六天變成五天，那或許也能從五天變成四天。

you have been speaking to researchers and campaigners who have been trying to make this happen, and

你也採訪了許多研究人員和倡議者，他們一直在努力促成這件事，

The four day week is based on a principle that's called 180, 100.

四天工作週是基於一個叫做「180、100」的原則。

So what that means is that you work for 100% of the pay, but

也就是說，你領取 100% 的薪水，

As long as you keep up 100% of your productivity.

And the key here is that it's not, it's not about Cramming in five days worth of work into four.

重點是，這不是要把五天的工作量塞進四天裡。

So it's not about doing really long hours.

And actually what's interesting is that research says that that's actually got, that has the opposite effect.

研究顯示，這樣做反而會有反效果。

So that makes, that leads to stress, to burnout.

So it's not about that, it's about working smarter and cutting waste.

所以重點不是這個，而是要更聰明地工作，減少浪費。

So for example, shorter meetings, fewer meetings, better use of.

例如，縮短會議、減少會議次數，更好地利用時間。

And what campaigners for the four day week are saying is that with AI now automating a lot of our tasks, this is a really good time.

四天工作週的倡議者表示，隨著 AI 現在自動化了我們許多工作，現在是個很好的時機。

And like now more than ever, it is really possible to achieve that 180, 100 goal.

而且現在比以往任何時候都更有可能實現 180、100 的目標。

而且這份研究也探討了這個問題。

所以這項研究是同類中規模最大的。

So essentially researchers from Boston College looked at 141 companies that decided to trial the four day week.

研究人員來自 Boston College，他們檢視了 141 家決定試行四天工作週的公司。

The U.S. canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland.

包括美國、加拿大、英國、澳洲、紐西蘭和愛爾蘭。

And what they looked at is four components.

They looked at job satisfaction, burnout, physical health and mental health.

他們檢視了工作滿意度、burnout、身體健康和心理健康。

And they found that overwhelmingly people reported being happier, being more satisfied and being sort of more better at their jobs when they switched to a four day week.

而且他們發現，絕大多數人回報說，當他們改採四天工作週後，變得更快樂、更滿意，而且工作表現也更好。

And what's interesting is that the trial is over now, but

而且有趣的是，這個試驗現在已經結束了，

about 90% of the people that took part the decided to keep doing it and the companies let them.

但參與的受試者中有大約90%決定繼續實踐，公司也同意了。

Yeah, that's amazing because I would have thought that was one of the big barriers to this bosses wanting things, not wanting change, shall we say.

對啊，這真的很令人驚訝，因為我本來以為，這其中一個很大的阻礙會是老闆們不想要改變，我們這樣說好了。

But the countries you mentioned, first of all, they're all western countries, something we should probably talk about a little bit.

而你剛剛提到的這些國家，首先，它們都是西方國家，這點我們可能需要稍微討論一下。

And the second thing is that in this study people, it was self reported, right.

第二點是，在這項研究中，人們是「自我回報」的，對吧？

So people might have just said that they, they were just as productive because I mean, what would you, what would you say?

所以人們可能就只是說他們、他們一樣有生產力，因為我的意思是，你會怎麼說？

I could do five episodes of the podcast in four days.

我可以在四天內完成 podcast 的五集。

The results the researchers got came from employees.

研究人員獲得的結果來自員工。

So there is a chance that they might have exaggerated the benefits because they wanted that extra day off.

所以他們有可能誇大了好處，因為他們想要多一天假。

And honestly, I mean, I don't blame them.

說真的，我的意思是，我不會怪他們。

And then the other thing is that all the companies that took part in the trial, they did it voluntarily.

另外，參與試驗的所有公司都是自願參與的。

So I think when you talk about a barrier being bosses who are skeptical, clearly they were already kind of open minded and thinking about this idea.

所以我認為，當你說一個障礙是懷疑的老闆時，顯然他們已經有點思想開放，並且在考慮這個想法了。

And then the other thing, as you said, precisely this sort of trial took part only in western countries.

還有，就像你說的，這種試驗恰好只在西方國家進行。

So it doesn't really take into account how developed a country is, or what work culture looks like in that country.

所以這並沒有真正考慮到一個國家有多發達，或者該國的工作文化是什麼樣子的。

For example, if you take Africa, a lot of people in many African countries work in the informal sector in mining.

舉例來說，如果你看非洲，許多非洲國家的人們在採礦業的非正式部門工作。

And so, I mean, they're nowhere near this sort of conversation.

所以，我的意思是，他們離這種對話還差得遠呢。

Were all of the companies that trialed this out, were they kind of standard office jobs, quite flexible ones?

參與試驗的所有公司，它們都是那種標準的辦公室工作，比較彈性的嗎？

It was mostly office jobs, but it was also restaurants, for example, or care sector.

大部分是辦公室工作，但也有像是餐廳，或是照護業。

But it is easier to implement this in an office job.

So for example, a startup that employs 20 people, for them, it's a lot easier to decide to try and work four days a week.

所以，舉例來說，一家有 20 名員工的新創公司，對他們來說，決定嘗試四天工作週會容易得多。

But if you've got a big corporation with offices around the world, different departments, different time zones, a bit like the BBC, it's really difficult and it will definitely not look the same for everybody.

但如果你有一家在全球各地設有辦公室、不同部門、不同時區的大公司，有點像 BBC，那會非常困難，而且對每個人來說肯定都不一樣。

You've been speaking to people in the companies that have done some of these trials.

你和進行過這些試驗的公司裡的人聊過。

Yes, I wanted to speak to some employers who kind of said to me that they implemented it and it worked.

是的，我想採訪一些實施了並奏效的僱主。

And I spoke to Charles, who is from South Africa and runs a counseling center in Cape Town, and

我採訪了 Charles，他來自南非，在開普敦經營一家諮詢中心，

he said that for him implementing the four day week was like, it changed everything.

他說 for him implementing the four day week was like, it changed everything.

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