New World Group announced the trial implementation of the "Summer Work Day", implementing a 4.5-day work week and one-day work from home in summer, allowing employees to arrange work time and location more flexibly, attracting the attention of many wage earners.
In fact, many companies in Hong Kong have similar arrangements, so that employees can work life balance (work-life balance) or take care of family life. For example, Hong Kong Broadband employees only need to work half a day on one Friday every month. Leave”, “Adoption Leave”, etc., to facilitate employees to take care of their families.
Human resources consultant Zhou Qiping also mentioned that some large companies even have childcare rooms. Children of employees can wait in the room after school, do homework, play, and wait for their parents to go home together after get off work.
She believes that due to the long working hours in Hong Kong, there are often frictions between work and family positions. These arrangements help migrant workers to balance work and family, especially the 4.5-day work week, which gives migrant workers more flexibility in living arrangements.
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Hong Kong has long working hours and ranks among the top in the ranking of "the regions with the longest working hours" in the world. Since 2006, the government has implemented a 5-day work week in various departments in phases. 6-day working system.
The 4.5-day workweek announced by New World Group recently is very attractive to Hong Kong wage earners.
HKBN employees work 4.5 days a week, plus grandchildren leave, adoption leave, etc.
In addition to New World Group, HKBN also has similar arrangements. Their employees only have to work half-day on one Friday every month, that is, one week per month is 4.5 days of work.
In addition to this work arrangement, HKBN provides leave for children, grandchildren, and adoption to facilitate employees to take care of their families. The adoption leave is up to 14 days.
At the same time, HKBN is currently implementing a "4+1" work arrangement, that is, one day a week to work from home and four days to return to the office.
Senior manpower consultant Zhou Qiping pointed out that even if the workload of 4.5 days of work is not reduced, it can still make part-time workers more flexible in living arrangements.
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4.5 days of work and life arrangements are more flexible, some companies set up nursery rooms for employees
Human resources consultant Zhou Qiping believes that working 4.5 days a week, even if the workload does not decrease, can still make part-time workers more flexible in living arrangements.
She also mentioned that the working hours in Hong Kong are long, and there are often frictions between work and family positions. This type of work arrangement helps migrant workers balance work and family.
She also mentioned that some large companies even have childcare rooms, where employees' children can go to the room after school to wait for their homework, play, and wait for their parents to go home after get off work. These work arrangements and benefits are attractive to employees.
However, Su Weizhong, general manager of Human Resources Consultants of Union Group, pointed out that no other company has implemented a similar arrangement to New World's 4.5-day work week. Enterprises may not have the conditions to make similar work arrangements.
Su Weizhong pointed out that working from home allows employees to work flexibly, and also helps employers to reduce rent expenses.
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Shifting to work from home during the epidemic, some companies arrange employees to use company facilities in turn
However, he pointed out that after the epidemic, employees of many companies can work from home. As far as he knows, although some companies still have headquarters, because more employees work from home, some departments have moved to non-fixed shared offices , or employees need to take turns to use company facilities, he believes that this model allows employees to balance their lives and work flexibly, and employers can reduce rent expenses.
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