A company that adopts 'working three days a week' appears in India, 'this is the future of work' and the founder



A company that has adopted a 'three-day work week' system has appeared in the Indian engineer market, which is suffering from a large shortage of human resources. The founder of the company says, 'This is the future of work. People don't want to be tied to work.'

A Three-Day Work Week? One Startup Experiments to Draw Talent --Bloomberg

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-04/a-three-day-work-week-one-startup-experiments-to-draw-talent

Even after Ford, an American automobile manufacturing company, introduced '8 hours a day, 5 days a week' in 1926, attempts to reduce working hours have continued, and in recent years Microsoft Japan has been piloting in 2019. In addition to introducing a four-day work week system, it has become clear that Spain is considering a four-day work week system at the national level in 2021.

Introduction of '3 days a week' is being considered at the national level --GIGAZINE



Some of these flows, India FinTech -based start-up companies ' Slice ' was revealed that it has adopted a 'three days a week work system' to stay one step ahead of the previous attempts. According to the company, the salaries of employees working under this system are 80% of the market price, and welfare programs are supported.

The Indian tech market has attracted so much attention that investors around the world are said to be spending billions of dollars (hundreds of billions of yen), competing with Silicon Valley and Wall Street for young talent. I strongly demand it. Under these circumstances, many Indian technology companies that are moving to secure human resources are adopting a tactic that appeals to other companies.

Slice spotted the gap of 'only 30 million people have credit cards, even though they have hundreds of millions of people with bank accounts' in India, and got a full-time job. From investors who have gained 3 million registrants in a short period of time by expanding the frontage of credit cards to those who do not have it, and have raised about 30 million dollars (about 3.3 billion yen) in the past financing rounds It is a company with a high degree of attention. In India, which is recovering from the impact of the new coronavirus infection, Slice has been appealing a three-day work week in the next three years as millions of engineers are returning from working from home to face-to-face work. We plan to increase the number of employees from 450 to 1000.

Below is a job page where Slice actually appeals to the labor system three days a week.

slice | code-in-3
https://code-in-3.sliceit.com/



The item about working three days a week clearly states, 'Even if there is a bug in the code, working three days a week will support your work life.'



In addition, it was emphasized that it supports teleworking and that unnecessary meetings are not held every day.



'This is the future of work. People don't want to be tied to work,' said Rajan Bajaj, founder of Slice. 'Employees can earn salaries and benefits by working three days a week, and the rest You can spend your time chasing startup dreams, looking for co-founders, and pursuing non-work passions. ' He insisted that he could secure a certain amount of human resources because he did not even hire him.

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