”As a rule, we organise ourselves, the rotation and when we take days off, which is great for us,” says Drago Pavlek, 37, who has been working at the Zagreb company for the last three years and who is very pleased with the four day week.
As Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 2nd of December, 2019, one Zagreb company has been working a four day week, which many companies around the world are now talking about and considering, for a while now, and the resilts they have experienced are more than excellent.
”We recently had a course where I asked my employees if they’d like to continue the practice of a four-day work week and they unanimously said yes,” stated Renata Šeperić Petak, the owner and director of the Zagreb company for 24sata.
Renata owns Logička matrica, and she shared the news that she was introducing this type of ”part-time work” a year ago on her private profile on Facobook, and then her statement echoed across the media. However, Renata was surprised that everyone had become so interested in the idea.
All six employees of this forward thinking Zagreb company are permanently employed on indefinite contracts, and the four-day work week gives them a spring in their step. For four days, they work ten hour shifts in order to meet the quota of 40 hours worked by law, and then they take one entire day completely off.
”That day, we get to do all the things that we have to do, visit institutions, go to the bank, go to the police, go to the doctor… Most of us don’t live in Zagreb and for that kind of thing we’d have to take special days off. We don’t spend these free days on recreation or wellness because we get that after our ”ordinary” working days are done, and then go for a drink or two after work,” says Drago from Zelina.
When they work ten hours a day for four days, they don’t feel it. It’s not hard for them. An hour-long lunch break takes place, and the work is dynamic and fast, so time goes by in no time. They’re there in the office from 08:00 to 18:00.
”I don’t care if anyone needs to go to the dentist, a gynecologist. They’re all adults and believe me when I say I’m ashamed to question them on where they’re going. I don’t want them standing in front of me and justifying themselves,” says the owner of this Zagreb company.
”They have total freedom to organise their work for themselves. I just like to see on the schedule where they’ve marked their days off and that’s really all I’m looking for. This is the type of business that often sees them end up in field meetings, so they do the rest from home, which is another benefit because our entire business is on the ‘cloud’. We’re as flexible as possible,” she says.
”I realised that money is no longer everything and that it isn’t enough to just reward people, but that they should be given enough time for themselves to become more satisfied,” explains Renata, who completed European studies in London, UK.
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