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The software firm in Turku announced its six-month trial of a four-day week with the nervous energy of a company expecting to regret it. Twenty staff kept their full pay and lost their Fridays. Six months later, managers published the numbers they had hardly dared hope for: higher output, shorter meetings, and staff who took about a third less sick leave than in the previous year.
The mechanics mattered more than the slogan. Friday was not squeezed out of a longer Monday; instead the company cut its longest meeting, killed a weekly report nobody read and let two projects lapse. Nobody missed the report, and the lapsed projects, managers admit, were more habit than necessity. Employees describe the change as less about rest than about respect — time became something the workplace planned for rather than something to be stolen from evenings.
The sceptics' case is concrete rather than cultural. A hospital ward or a bakery cannot simply close on Fridays, and covering the missing day costs money. Care rotas, delivery schedules and seasonal work do not shrink because a spreadsheet looks elegant, and for such workplaces the trial's tidy results say little.
The firm, to its credit, does not preach. Its directors speak at business events, but they present the trial as an experiment with boundaries, not a movement. A rested team is not a luxury; it is equipment. He four-day week is a tool, not a creed, the managing director told a local chamber of commerce — then wished everyone a restful weekend, having earned it on a Thursday.
Which statement best sums up the passage about Turku?
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What does the passage about Turku say about the change in sick leave?
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In the passage about Turku, why do some critics question the four-day week?
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In the Turku passage, what is the author's attitude toward the four-day week?
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In the passage about Turku, what does the author mean by "a rested team is not a luxury; it is equipment"?
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