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But behind the scenes, general manager Chris O’Sullivan and three of his colleagues lived in the building to keep things ticking over. The hotel was silent and New York’s normally busy streets were deserted. O’Sullivan says the whole experience was surreal and not one he’d want to repeat any time soon.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SIULQOTW5VFMHJ2AG6QAFYH32Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1683648873613},"content":"“We have permanent residents in the penthouse and, as we hold the fire certificate for the building, someone had to be here,” he says. “Being in an empty hotel when you’re used to the constant bustle felt really strange and wasn’t much fun. By day we worked. In the evening, we’d meet up and cook dinner together. 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Research by Bloom and his colleagues, which used a large-language model which used artificial intelligence to analyse 250 million job adverts in five English-speaking countries, shows the share of postings that explicitly offer fully remote or hybrid work has shot up from under 5 per cent before the pandemic to roughly 10 per cent or more in all countries (over 15 per cent in the UK) in 2023. But it’s worth remembering the “new normal” hasn’t yet been tested in a labour market where unemployment is high and workers are competing for employers, rather than the other way around.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ITM5BMNA7NA2NDVADAFYYVK5JI","additional_properties":{"_id":1683621856719},"content":"I hope employers don’t try to wind the clock back, even if they discover they can. Hybrid work seems to have improved working lives – not for everyone, but not just for the elite, either. 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The smog was thick and lethal.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5P2DVWCD2RFRTAD7QBPSHFG2TA","additional_properties":{"_id":1683454692137},"content":"One thing they did have in the 1950s, however, was knobs – by which I mean buttons, dials and other physical protuberances that one could twist or prod to control anything from a television to a car radio.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6U5V43GL6BAMVKQICE6FI6VX4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1683454692138},"content":"I remembered this the other week when I rented a car in which nearly every button had been replaced by a touchscreen so baffling I nearly ran off the road trying to change the radio station.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NUIFIFIEM5D3PPQXZQQNMSK5DQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1683454692139},"content":"The good news is that, in some parts of the car industry, buttons are coming back.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BYKKIFNLENCWXJXOFNXHNPOOYI","additional_properties":{"_id":1683454692140},"content":"Physical switches will reportedly return in new Porsche Cayenne SUVs and Volkswagens. 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Experts say screens can be much cheaper than lots of physical buttons but Callum says this was not the main driving factor.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UVSLYOUEBZGEPFKVLKCDWL7V4Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1683454692147},"content":"“The real motivation was this visible technology that the marketing people really liked,” he says, adding he was constantly told to design for bigger and bigger screens.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QAEFKBT4IVD2TLACCHQCLTA4KE","additional_properties":{"_id":"IBYBMEFBMRDH5KHMVDETBDV2NM"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"TCI3KJMG2ZEE3ITEP4S4U3VALU","additional_properties":{"_id":1683454692149},"content":"His wariness about a touchscreen takeover stemmed from an understanding that the tactile nature of physical switches is instinctively appealing and you can use a button easily without taking your eyes off the road.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5ABU5UQPWJCXLP7J2SYIQDABZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1683454692150},"content":"This is the crucial point. It’s one thing if it takes a while to work out how to navigate a touchscreen on a washing machine but quite another if you are on a busy motorway.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7AFYG4RNDVANBASRDFJCFBVNDQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1683454692151},"content":"Tests last year by a Swedish car magazine showed why. They revealed the driver of a 17-year-old Volvo with physical buttons doing 68mph took just 10 seconds to complete a series of tasks: turn on the radio, set it to a certain station, switch on the defroster and so on.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TNGUBZHE5FG4BGIGIYMC5KMWHM","additional_properties":{"_id":1683454692152},"content":"It took 23.5 seconds in a Tesla Model 3 and even longer in a BMW iX and other modern cars that have lost buttons to touchscreens.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MJIHSQOIHZCKVNF3IMET3LA43U","additional_properties":{"_id":"VY6UJKUA5ZGN3HU7HSM7QPBRNI"},"content":"Electric car sales overtake diesel in April as new car market grows 16.2% this year","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"TAB6OR2BQZB6HOZJBS3FJEDNCI","additional_properties":{"_id":1683454692153},"content":"An electric MG Marvel R driver took almost 45 seconds, by which time the car had gone 1,372 metres – more than four times the distance of the older Volvo. 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In particular, it is scarcely credible that she has still not received an outcome of the very serious complaint that she made,” he added.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LVKL5DPPLJHDXNILJLCSO562W4","additional_properties":{"_id":1683295014696},"content":"Mr O’Neill said a complete investigation report could have “reversed some of the effects of the discriminatory treatment”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DVX22L3BABDDHJDQVCXWQ5DDFQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1683295014697},"content":"He said a new dignity at work policy since brought in by the company “will be of little benefit” to Ms O’Brien, who Mr O’Neill noted was still an employee but “unlikely” to get back to work soon.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GZ4JQLKGIZFBLIWKGCBZX6YCBA","additional_properties":{"_id":1683295014698},"content":"He ordered the firm to pay the “maximum” compensation in the matter, two years’ pay, to Ms O’Brien, a sum of €50,440.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Stephen Bourke"}]},"description":{"basic":"WRC orders courier company to pay ‘wholly credible’ woman maximum allowed for its handling of complaint"},"display_date":"2023-05-05T12:46:18.446Z","headlines":{"basic":"Office worker who suffered ‘trauma’ when colleague tried to pull down her trousers awarded €50,000","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"E2KZ63D6B5BQMRD766UGUXXWV4","auth":{"1":"f3d9f2030bc53a84acac6d3ca4a40851af2e57c2a4dd29ce11d8fb41110df1cb"},"focal_point":{"x":3305,"y":2122},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/E2KZ63D6B5BQMRD766UGUXXWV4.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Work"},{"name":"Business"},{"name":"Crime & Law"},{"name":"Ireland"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/crime-law/2023/05/05/office-worker-who-suffered-trauma-when-colleague-tried-to-pull-down-her-trousers-awarded-50000/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/business/work","additional_properties":{"original":{"Podcast":{"podcast_logo":null}}},"name":"Work"}}}},{"_id":"S35KGAFBCJFEVKMRYWFZW7P5DA","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":630,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/6776757/media/07c011983046381dda64ad9e5e3d3ad8_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/business/work/2023/05/12/business-cautious-as-it-grapples-with-idea-of-four-day-working-week/","content_elements":[{"_id":"XLB2OK7LNVCWBLAE4EH4PHBTAA","additional_properties":{"_id":1683028321197},"content":"Among the more than 50 motions up for discussion at the annual Association of Higher Civil and Public Servants annual conference in Dublin today are a handful calling for the union’s new executive to commission research into the four-day working week and, separately, to support the existing campaign to promote the concept.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3WIKRTBHLJBNDFNTFZUHXP34E4","additional_properties":{"_id":1683028321198},"content":"That campaign has been back in the news this past week as the organisation driving it here, Four Day Working Week Ireland, issued a call for businesses to enrol in its latest trial of the initiative. The idea is intended to allow people to receive 100 per cent of their pay for working 80 per cent of the time, in return for continuing to do 100 per cent of their previous workload.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JM5QSOFR3FAYBH2SNBR6RBIEMI","additional_properties":{"_id":1683028321199},"content":"To date, the results of what have generally been rather small-scale studies both here and abroad have been hugely positive, with upwards of 80 per cent of companies involved routinely saying they will stick with it long term and many of the others extending the trials.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QEMQZE3DVZCQXAW4LLPHEVOW4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1683028321200},"content":"Recruitment firm Ice Group’s Margaret Cox, who became a vocal advocate for the initiative after the company gave it a try, says there has been a 27 per cent increase in its staff’s productivity, greater levels of retention, fewer single-day absences and staff saying they are happier.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KT4O37E4SFGYDMHAFRWO2ED3RU","additional_properties":{"_id":1683028321201},"content":"After a trial last year involving 12 Irish businesses with some 200 people, employers like Barry Prost of Rent a Recruiter and Sinéad Crowther of Dundalk-based manufacturer Soothing Solutions also hailed their own experiences as very positive. Cork-based accountancy firm MC2 recently said it was adopting it as its basic work model.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AWLTEE4K2BAJ3F7IAYBDCDZPYA","additional_properties":{"_id":1683028321202},"content":"Multinationals like Toyota, Unilever and Microsoft have also conducted what have been reported to have been successful trials with groups of workers, and the governments of Spain and Scotland are among those set to back trials currently in the pipeline in those countries.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FAICKDQPRFDV3MT4ECPTFFZXXY","additional_properties":{"_id":"WUF2TB6JCZFMXBXKTF2GQR3GOI"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"GY2K3DDMLVCBXHCNRPKGSSGRQA","additional_properties":{"_id":1683035230130},"content":"Many in the business world remain sceptical, however, suggesting the self-selecting nature of the participants in such trials means that the companies involved already know they are in a position to make it work. 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But if you’re putting up your hand for it, you probably have that sense that it is something that’s going to work in your business.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KE3NLBO2W5FPFC4EUV3NACHSI4","additional_properties":{"_id":1683028321206},"content":"“I think lots of businesses could learn from the ones that can successfully run it over a longer period of time, because they have probably invested quite a lot in that skill set of managing productivity at a high level, but I think the longer term will also tell us lots of really interesting things about how that works.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ELK5GTRK6RFFTAPRGHDWXS4A54","additional_properties":{"_id":1683028321207},"content":"Asked about the trials, McElwee raises questions about how the four-day week was defined and how successful a couple of them really were, but primarily focuses on the fact that they have all tended to be fairly short-term.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HCBAVADZXBFSDA7ORHD36ORLNA","additional_properties":{"_id":1683028321208},"content":"How might something that, she suggests, strips out the scope for a great many existing workplace flexibilities work in the longer term? “If you are reducing the number of hours but still getting the productivity then you have to work harder for the hours you are working. But human beings tend not to be consistent in that way. And our exterior lives tend to be even less consistent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ERQVBYNOBFARPAZ75G6UOPMH6M","additional_properties":{"_id":1683028321209},"content":"“So it’s very difficult to organise it that your school event is always going to be on a Friday, if that’s your four-day work week pattern. Kids are never conveniently sick when you’re not on one of your high productivity days.","type":"text"},{"_id":"73T2DOEA7BEG5IQVBWRGKZGW54","additional_properties":{"_id":1683028321210},"content":"“It’s very difficult to keep your productivity at that 100 per cent level and still drop eight hours out of your working week, week after week, month after month, year after year. And for some people, that’s a very stressful environment to work in. They don’t thrive in that; they actually thrive in an environment where there’s more time for conversation.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"SGY3QGQSGVCDVJXHIYCNQZRA2U","additional_properties":{"_id":1683028321211},"content":"That, though, is just to focus on working environments where it is ultimately a possibility. What about a big factory, a school or a hospital, McElwee asks? In the first instance, she suggests, productivity is a key issue: “European firms working a more expensive four-day workweek are never going to compete against China, Singapore or India, or any other emerging and growing economy, unless you’re all moving at the same pace.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"65G6SKQRWBCILAH5OF5UCNRX3I","additional_properties":{"_id":1683028321212},"content":"In respect of the other two, she argues, it doesn’t really enter the equation, because “you can’t use productivity to offset another hire in nursing or teaching because you can’t do more for a person today than you will need to do tomorrow”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PJYXAFDVPJG33G46FOBW7OMB64","additional_properties":{"_id":"ZBZSII2MQRCURGMVEK6P3XDLAQ"},"content":"Four-day work week can significantly benefit employers and staff, study finds","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"XP7IMC22RNBHZD4SLYOIX4FNT4","additional_properties":{"_id":"E5JLFWLDHFAG3LZA3ZE3VKTE2Y"},"content":"There is a solution to give staff more time to upskill: a four-day week","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"ABFGZ4TUOVE63PBWU45PRKR54E","additional_properties":{"_id":1683271204907},"content":"On the manufacturing front, John Teeling of Great Northern Distillery, a businessman with extensive experience of more than one sector, is similarly sceptical of the potential to change the landscape so fundamentally. He admits: “I suppose if you talked to me 60 years ago I would have told you that we could never break from a five and a half-day week, even a six-day one.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4CSVONYFKZA5HJ24ESY6K2MUT4","additional_properties":{"_id":1683028321214},"content":"“But I honestly can’t see how it can work in manufacturing. We operate 24/7 and have people here on-site but the production process is largely machine-paced. This could only be accommodated, as far as I can see, at an additional cost to an employer.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DLWSUI33MREHRI3BNTVSQI6JHE","additional_properties":{"_id":1683028321215},"content":"“In terms of white-collar workers, it requires a big increase in productivity, but I’m not even sure how you measure the productivity of a white-collar worker. 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Do you just have a four-day work working week, which means that you only work Monday to Thursday and you close down on Friday? Or do people work four days across a five-day week? And what impact does that have on collaboration, networking, etc?","type":"text"},{"_id":"QSEEYQ7FONBO7AXPMK37CICWLA","additional_properties":{"_id":1683028321219},"content":"“For some businesses faced with losing 20 per cent productivity out of your week, you’re not necessarily going to replace that by squeezing it all into longer days because you still want people to work the same hours, right?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EHWDNO6SNRDQFGYG7J56GFDFWE","additional_properties":{"_id":1683028321220},"content":"Shifting candidate expectations, one of the topics to be explored at the group’s Dublin conference for talent acquisition leaders on May 11th, is clearly a factor in certain sectors, Slattery acknowledges, with recruitment and retention both big issues at present. But in other sectors, he too wonders how it might ever work.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EF6HBCYIF5H3PMU5GY2KECTE3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1683028321221},"content":"“Am I going to close SuperValu down every Friday? If I’m working on dairy production, I’m not going to close down and not produce any milk on a Friday. So I think the principle is sound as an aspiration, but the real application across macroeconomy and macrobusiness is difficult to comprehend right now. Unless the whole world went Friday to Sunday as its new weekend.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6XXRCQYMWVFVZF4PKWLNYUQH5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1683028321222},"content":"Kevin Donoghue, who is chairman of Four Day Week Ireland, believes the model can work in pretty much every area of the economy. 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It’s not an unfair thing to say there’s a degree of self-selection involved, that these companies wanted it, and so success is more likely. But at the end of the day, the vast majority of companies that have participated in these trials are companies that operate in order to generate a profit. So that will dictate the decisions that they make.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PCI2JTOZ6VGUXLUMLAWLKRNQQA","additional_properties":{"_id":1683028321230},"content":"“If, after the trial, their decision is to maintain the four-day week, which it overwhelmingly is, I think that there’s more proof in that than any case you can make from an academic perspective. 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At home people tend to hold on to their cars for longer, whereas over here it’s common for someone to change every nine to 12 months.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"B6N4NGM5URHQPFXTWYYZUI5TZA","additional_properties":{"_id":1682447660558},"content":"With two boys aged nine and 12 constantly on the go, much of Martin’s personal time revolves around their busy lives. “I try to get involved with their school as well as with their sports activities, and if I need to take a few hours off to go to something at the school, the company is okay with that. This family-friendly flexibility really takes the pressure off at times,” she says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CWY6OIGZAJC6VG3JC32L222MJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1682447660559},"content":"Martin loved her time with the company in Cork and is still very much tied to her roots. Her choice of radio station is Cork’s 96FM, and chatting daily to her folks has kept her accent intact. However, the opportunities offered by the move to the UK would not have come her way had she stayed in Ireland, she says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EUBQC35XTREZ3PYYR6F56NSBPY","additional_properties":{"_id":"OE4J44S66RC3DKUKEYZB3SORB4"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"KRWGLIWBOZC3VNYLCJGR7VJSHI","additional_properties":{"_id":1682447660560},"content":"“I’ve been offered the options of working in Germany and a move to the States, but for various reasons the timing wasn’t good for me and I’ve stayed put. That said, I’ve never felt ‘stuck’ because there is plenty of opportunity to move – and each new role feels like starting over.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"JGLX3SDHJJHO7FA67WSINGBYOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1682447660561},"content":"Ford has made a commitment to having a comprehensive range of electric vehicles on the market by 2030, and Martin is in the thick of it with the roll-out of the company’s electric commercial fleet. 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If there’s bad behaviour, will it be stopped or swept under the carpet, as the recent implosion at Confederation of British Industry shows still happens even in organisations supposed to be pointing the way for others?","type":"text"},{"_id":"RWSX5QNKXFGN7I4SRNCO4FHYO4","additional_properties":{"_id":1683023186469},"content":"“Culture is what happens when nobody is watching,” says Prof Sonpar. “It is like the personality of an organisation, and it leaves a deep and subconscious imprint on who we are and how we conduct ourselves. 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