NOVA SBE HEALTH ECONOMICS & MANAGEMENT SEMINAR SERIES - FEBRUARY 2025
Thursday 6 February 2025
Starts 11:00 AM
Finishes 13:00 PM
Organized by Nova SBE - Health Economics & Management KC
Venue: Nova School of Business and Economics
Address: 1 Rua da Holanda
Carcavelos
2775-405 Lisboa
About this event
Flexible Work and the Four-Day Week
Flexible Work and the Four-Day Week
In this month’s edition of the NOVA SBE HEALTH ECONOMICS & MANAGEMENT SEMINAR SERIES, Rita Fontinha, Associate Professor of Strategic Human Resource Management at Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK, and Director of the Flexible Working within the World of Work Institute at Henley Business School, will explore the evolving landscape of work arrangements, focusing on the growing debate around hybrid work, the rise of the four-day week, and the implications of these changes for both employees and employers.
Title: Flexible Work and the Four Day Week
We are currently witnessing an increase in debates around the amount of time we should be working and around the place(s) from where we should be working. There can be many different work arrangements along the axes of time and space flexibility, which generate relevant questions.
Is hybrid work the best solution for employees and employers? Are we moving towards a two-tiered workforce, composed by those who can and those who cannot work remotely? Is a four-day week a good new form of organising work?
This micro-talk will address these questions, by presenting the most recent research developments in this field, paying a particular attention to the Four-Day Week Trial Results in Portugal. These findings have been retrieved from employee and employer-level quantitative data.
Link to 4 Day Week Trial Report in English:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tWXRhQExQ_eC0zHqwxvzWdY7vdnnXcmd/view
About Rita:
Rita Fontinha is an Associate Professor of Strategic Human Resource Management at Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK. She is also the Director of the Flexible Working within the World of Work Institute at Henley Business School, and she co-coordinated the implementation of the first pilot of the Four Day Work Week in Portugal.
Rita’s research focuses on alternative work arrangements, people’s quality of working life and their implications on individual and organisational performance. She has published several research articles related to these topics. Her research has mostly a quantitative/statistical nature and she is also the co-author of a book on research methods.
6th FEB | 11:00-13:00 | Nova SBE | Room D011
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