<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The Greens are pushing for Australia to pilot test the coveted </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/australian-company-to-expand-its-four-day-working-week/2929805e-4e18-4d25-b545-4df0f008cd91" rel="" target="_blank" title="four-day work week."><span>four-day work week.</span></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/the-greens" rel="" target="_blank" title="Greens"><span>Greens</span></a><span> senator Barbara Pocock today unveiled the party's election policy, which would involve forming the National Institute for the Four Day Work Week to trial reducing the traditional Monday to Friday full-time schedule.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Pocock said ordinary Australians deserved to have a permanent extra day off with the same pay and claimed it would result in "happier, better-rested and harder workers".</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/north-macedonia-nightclub-fire-dozens-killed-in-massive-fire-in-kocani/f10d5a4a-0263-4861-92c0-e2e028045d77" target="_blank"><strong><span>'I don't need my life anymore': Nation rocked by worst tragedy in memory</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="styles__Wrapper-sc-2o34ro-0 cmwkBV"><div class="styles__Column-sc-2o34ro-3 jJDKrX"><a href="/content/2022/10/12/10/09/aussie-jobs-that-work-the-longest-hours"><img alt="" sizes="(min-width: 1024px) 636px, (min-width: 768px) 396px, 100vw" src="https://imageresizer.static9.net.au/CObsqN2kbqpENInBoiZDybinwyw=/396x223/https%3A%2F%2Fprod.static9.net.au%2Ffs%2F04e17315-165f-4178-ae8a-ca2e9308e163" srcset="https://imageresizer.static9.net.au/CObsqN2kbqpENInBoiZDybinwyw=/396x223/https%3A%2F%2Fprod.static9.net.au%2Ffs%2F04e17315-165f-4178-ae8a-ca2e9308e163 396w, https://imageresizer.static9.net.au/ukihLBjW5lbP5JU6NTDy1xGQUqc=/636x358/https%3A%2F%2Fprod.static9.net.au%2Ffs%2F04e17315-165f-4178-ae8a-ca2e9308e163 636w"/></a></div><div class="styles__Column-sc-2o34ro-3 jJDKrX"><div class="styles__Headline-sc-2o34ro-4 hpbOlz">The jobs where staff work more hours than the rest of the country </div><div class="styles__Button-sc-2o34ro-1 eBjlmW"><a class="styles__ButtonLink-sc-2o34ro-2 hqpklJ" href="/content/2022/10/12/10/09/aussie-jobs-that-work-the-longest-hours">View Gallery</a></div></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Many countries around the world are already doing this - Canada, Spain, Germany, the US, the UK," Pocock said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"The results tell us productivity often improves, absenteeism falls, and we find that workers stay at work longer and it really benefits working carers, especially women."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Its time we took this step."</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/four-day-work-week-greens-push-for-reduced-working-hours-in-australia-election-policy/1eb73daf-b407-48b7-999e-5c2ca74e1ba1" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Australians were among the first in the world to achieve a mandated eight-hour work day in 1856.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Nearly 170 years on, Pocock said our nation is "lagging behind" the rest of the world.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It's time workers had a better go," she added.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It's time we moved to a reduction in working hours."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/sydney-crash-menai-father-flees/f6b0098e-ebab-4bc8-9dcc-4fc9e77a6be7" target="_blank"><strong><span>Search for dad who rolled his ute, extracted kids and fled</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Pocock estimated the formation of a national institute to officially trial four-day weeks across multiple businesses would cost a "modest spend of $10 million per year".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She said multiple industries would need to test and monitor the impact, including whether an increase in hours across the four days was needed.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The Senate Inquiry into Work and Care recommended the government undertake a four-day work week trial in 2023.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/el-salvador-new-terrorist-prison-opens-human-rights-criticisms-first-prisoners-arrive/ff983c9c-1b3e-450e-b975-046838dc1c22" target="_blank"><strong><span>Inside the brutal foreign prison where Trump is sending 'criminals'</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A four-day week would be based on the 100:80:100 model, where workers keep 100 per cent of their salary while reducing hours to 80 per cent and committing to 100 per cent productivity.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Some Australian businesses have already permanently adopted a Monday to Thursday week, </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/claxon-agency-four-day-work-week-australia/dee15042-9200-4e69-81ba-5dd7f3869e97" rel="" target="_blank" title="including media agency Claxon"><span>including media agency Claxon</span></a><span>. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Medibank also trialled a four-day week last year for 500 employees and found overall health, sleep and work-life balance improved.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></em></strong></a><strong><em><span>: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. 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