The shift is notable because it runs counter to the companies and countries that are experimenting with a four-day workweek. The extra hours will come with a 40% jump in pay for Greek workers who add two hours to their day or take on an extra eight-hour workday. He previously told BI that he and his management colleagues began looking into a four-day workweek after seeing successful pilots in Japan and other countries. They wanted to make sure we keep doing the four-day workweek," he said. AdvertisementBasis Technologies, an advertising software company, shifted its workweek to four and a half days after years of experiments with a four-day workweek and other approaches.

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Persons: —, Adedy, Zachary Toth, Toth didn't, Toth, Emily Barron, Barron, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Aris, Germany's Organizations: Service, Business, Guardian, Research, Metex Corporation, Technologies, Aris Kazakos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Germany's DW Locations: Greece, India, Toronto, Japan