Inside the 4-Day Workweek Experiment 周休3日實驗結果揭密

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紐時周報精選 Inside the 4-Day Workweek Experiment 周休3日實驗結果揭密 Tech Titans Recognize Trump Reality, and Rush to Curry Favor 川普重返白宮成真 科技巨頭爭獻媚

Inside the 4-Day Workweek Experiment 周休3日實驗結果揭密 文/Isabella Kwai 譯/羅方妤 周休3日實驗結果揭密 On a recent Wednesday morning, Matt Kimber did not sign into his job as a senior engineer at a software company. Instead, he went for a walk around his London neighborhood, picked up lunch at a cafe, and played with his two greyhounds. 最近一個周三上午，身為一間軟體公司資深工程師的金柏沒有登入上班。他反倒是在自己居住的倫敦街區散步，去咖啡廳買午餐，並和他的兩隻灰狗玩耍。 His employer, BrandPipe, was pleased to hear it. The company is one of several British businesses testing a four-day workweek with no reduction in pay, part of a six-month trial involving about 1,000 workers organized by the advocacy group 4 Day Week. 他的雇主BrandPipe聽見這個消息很高興。該公司是多間測試每周工作4天但不減薪的英國公司之一。這是倡議團體「每周4日工作制」所籌畫為期6個月、涉及1000名員工試驗的一部分。 After a previous pilot in 2022, 56 of 61 participating companies, or 92%, said they would continue with the four-day week, the group said. It is hoping to pave the way for a 32-hour, four-day week to be enshrined under British legislation, reducing the maximum number of hours currently allowed by law. Similar efforts have taken hold in Iceland, New Zealand, Scotland and the United States. 該組織表示，上次於2022年進行試驗後，61間參與的公司有56間說，會繼續實施每周4日工作制，比率約92%。試驗希望為英國立法規定每周工作32小時、每周工作4日鋪路，減少法律目前允許的最大工時。冰島、紐西蘭和美國也曾進行類似行動。 "It's sound business sense," said Geoff Slaughter, a co-founder of BrandPipe. "If you've got a team that's happy, you're less likely to lose them." BrandPipe共同創辦人斯勞特表示：「這是明智的商業思維。如果你有一支快樂的團隊，就比較不可能失去他們。」 To prepare for the trial, BrandPipe, which is fully remote, went through six weeks of workshops run by the 4 Day Week Campaign to help work out the logistics. The company collectively decided on a flexible arrangement in which employees take different days off, to ensure that clients are covered through the week. Most companies in the pilot are giving employees an extra day off each week, while some opted for a day off every other week. 為準備這個試驗，採取全遠端工作的BrandPipe參加「每周4日工作制」舉辦為期6周的研討會，以協助解決後勤問題。該公司共同決定採取靈活的安排，讓員工在不同的日子休息，確保客戶整個星期都能得到服務保障。參與試驗的大多數公司每周給員工額外休假一天，而有些公司選擇每隔一周額外休假一天。 Everyone at BrandPipe attends a weekly team meeting, and key tasks have "surrogates" so that one employee can handle them if another is off, Slaughter said. The firm emailed clients explaining its participation in the pilot, he said, and reassured them that it would not cause disruptions. 斯勞特表示，BrandPipe的每一個人都會參加每周團隊會議，且重要工作都有「代理人」，因此若某位員工休假，另一名員工能處理這些工作。他說，該公司發送電子郵件向客戶解釋，公司參與每周4日工作制的試驗，並向他們保證不會造成困擾。 "What we're trying to achieve here is making sure that we've got fresher minds for longer," he said. "Because that's when we're doing our best work." 他表示：「我們試圖達成的目標是，確保維持頭腦清醒更久。因為這樣我們的工作表現最好。」 After the first trial, from June to December in 2022, 70% of the nearly 3,000 employees involved said they felt a decrease in stress and burnout, while companies reported no negative impact to their revenue, according to a report by the program's organizers. 計畫籌辦者的一份報告指出，2022年6月至12月的首次試驗後，參與試驗的近3000名員工中有70%表示，他們覺得壓力和倦怠有所減輕，而各家公司通報，試驗對他們營收沒有負面影響。 After the current trial, the campaign is planning to present the results to British officials, who have signaled an interest in reforming labor laws for British workers. 近期試驗後，該組織正計畫向英國官員展示結果，官員已表示有興趣為英國員工改革勞工法。 Tech Titans Recognize Trump Reality, and Rush to Curry Favor 川普重返白宮成真 科技巨頭爭獻媚 文/Theodore Schleifer and David 譯/羅方妤 川普重返白宮成真 科技巨頭爭獻媚 Meta. Amazon. OpenAI's Sam Altman. Each of these Silicon Valley companies or their leaders promised to support President-elect Donald Trump's inaugural committee with seven-figure checks over the past week, often accompanied by a pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago to bend the knee. Meta。亞馬遜。OpenAI的奧特曼。這些矽谷公司或其領導人每個都在過去一周承諾，以七位數金額支票捐助候任總統川普的就職委員會，通常還伴隨去海湖莊園朝拜以表示臣服。 The procession of tech leaders who traveled to hobnob with Trump included Sundar Pichai, Google's CEO, and Sergey Brin, a Google founder, who together dined with Trump on Thursday. Tim Cook, Apple's CEO, shared a meal with Trump on Friday. And Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, planned to meet with Trump in the next few days. 這一串巴結川普的科技業領袖，包括谷歌執行長皮伽和谷歌創辦人布林，他們周四和川普共進晚餐。蘋果執行長庫克周五和川普一起用餐。亞馬遜創辦人貝佐斯也計畫未來幾天內會見川普。 While businesses frequently try to get on an incoming president's good side, the frenzy of tech activity stood out. 儘管企業經常試圖討好即將上任的總統，但這波科技業活動狂潮特別引人注目。 Meta and Amazon, whose founders had previously been criticized by Trump, said they would donate $1 million to Trump's inaugural fund this past week. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the high-profile artificial intelligence startup, said Friday that a $1 million donation to Trump's inaugural fund would come from him personally. Meta和亞馬遜創辦人過去一周表示，將向川普的就職基金會捐款100萬美元。他們先前都被川普批評。備受關注的人工智慧新創公司OpenAI執行長奧特曼周五表示，他個人將向川普的就職基金會捐款100萬美元。 Other tech leaders have also praised Trump. Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce and owner of Time magazine, posted on X on Thursday that it was "a time of great promise for our nation," after Time awarded Trump its coveted "Person of the Year" designation. 其他科技業領袖也讚揚川普。「時代」雜誌授予川普人人夢寐以求的「年度風雲人物」稱號後，Salesforce執行長兼「時代」雜誌所有人班紐夫周四在X發文表示，這是「我們國家充滿希望的時刻」。 "We look forward to working together to advance American success and prosperity for everyone," Benioff wrote, alongside a picture of the Time cover of Trump. 班紐夫寫道，「我們期待攜手合作，為每個人推動美國的成功和繁榮」，並附上有川普照片的「時代」雜誌封面。 The turnabout has been especially stark as some tech executives who made donation pledges or met with Trump this past week had appeared to be avowed liberals, including Benioff and Altman. 這種轉變特別明顯，因為過去一周承諾捐款或與川普會面的一些科技業主管，原本似乎是公認的自由派人士，包括班紐夫和奧特曼。 Some signs of tension between Trump and the tech industry have surfaced. Trump has named tech hawks to senior administration roles, as well as tech executives such as David Sacks. 川普和科技業間緊張關係的一些跡象已浮上檯面。川普已提名科技鷹派擔任高階政府職務，以及薩克斯這類科技業主管。 Part of Sacks' job is to assemble a council to advise Trump on crypto and AI. But Trump's circle of advisers and his tech friends have disagreed over whether there should be two separate advisory bodies or just one, people involved in the conversations said. 薩克斯的部分工作是組建一個委員會，提供川普關於加密貨幣和人工智慧的建議。但參與對話的人士稱，川普顧問圈和他的科技業友人，對於是否該設立兩個獨立諮詢機構還是只設立一個，存在分歧。

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