KRÜSS has recently reduced the working-hours to 36, allowing its employees to choose the 4-day week while keeping the same salary.
With its new ‘Reduced to the maximum: the KRÜSS 4-day week’ claim, KRÜSS has recently announced that all its full-time employees have now the opportunity to reduce their working-hours to 36 and choosing the four-days working-week while keeping the same salary.
KRÜSS is a family business based in Hamburg (Germany) specialised in interfacial chemistry and measuring instruments for surface and interfacial tension. The new initiative will allow the company to offer many benefits to existing employees, while also helping to recruit new talents and remain competitive.
As a matter of fact, from 1st
July the employees have been able to reduce their working hours from 40 to 36 per week, while maintaining the same salary. They are also allowed to choose to spread the 36 working hours on five days or four, thus gaining additional 46 days off per year. In addition, from now on the newly-hired staff will only be offered employment contracts with a maximum of 36 working hours per week.
“Our employees make KRÜSS who we are. With the 4-day week, we want to offer them real added value and respond to the changing demands of work-life balance. We are convinced that the increased flexibility will have a positive impact on the lives of our employees and at the same time on their productivity and our corporate culture. In this way, we will continue to position KRÜSS as an attractive employer in the future,” has stated Gordon Peters, the managing director of KRÜSS.
The four-days working-week has already been discussed as an alternative working schedule. Since life and family models are becoming more diverse, they therefore demand more flexible and life-friendly work concepts that offer more time for family, care, own projects, hobbies, further education and voluntary work.
Moreover, the researchers from the University of Cambridge have also determined several other advantages for both employers and employee: burnout and stress symptoms are decreased, resulting in fewer sick days and resignations, while productivity also did not seem to suffer (with also a slightly increase by 1.4%).