Aksa Akrilik to test 4-day working week in Türkiye for 1st time

Aksa Akrilik to test 4-day working week in Türkiye for 1st time

Acrylic fiber producer Aksa Akrilik is to change to a four-day-a-week working system as of Jan. 1, changing into the primary firm in Türkiye to implement such an utility.

The utility, which can be piloted till March 31, 2023, is aimed toward rising productiveness and worker satisfaction.

It will apply to roughly 200 staff who don’t obtain time beyond regulation funds out of its 1,450 worker workforce.

Aksa Akrilik Board Member and General Manager Cengiz Taş identified that totally different working practices have began to be researched and carried out in virtually all sectors with the impact of the pandemic and technological developments in recent times, and that they “will set an example for the business world” by attempting this working system.

“We will announce the results after our implementation,” he stated.

“We will measure the performance of our employees within the scope of the application according to business results and targets,” he added.

Taş stated his firm “has an employee structure with a high sense of belonging and is accustomed to a work-oriented performance system for years.”

“Therefore, with its deep-rooted 50-year history, it is one of the companies that will implement this application in the best way,” the official stated.

Taş additional famous that their staff, who work time beyond regulation through the intervals required by their jobs and don’t obtain time beyond regulation wages, will be capable to work 4 days per week so long as they fulfill their duties and duties utterly and absolutely understand their targets.

“We believe the pilot implementation will contribute by increasing the quality of our business results. In addition, our system of working from home two days a week will continue,” he stated.

The variety of corporations which have began purposes to scale back working time, which is 5 days per week, is rising worldwide. So far, four-day-a-week practices are being examined by some corporations within the United Kingdom, Belgium, the United States, New Zealand, Ireland and Canada. Research exhibits that the four-day system not solely improves productiveness and well-being but additionally considerably reduces firm vitality prices.

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