British Polish Chamber of Commerce

4-day working week - the new reality?

The experience of the pandemic has forced a change in the approach to time management in companies, and - in many cases - a shift to remote or hybrid working together with a reorganisation of work schedules. This has led many experts and managers to boldly discuss going one step further and reducing the working week, ideally to 32 hours in an average four-day working week.

Together with Déhora Poland, Filipiak Babicz Legal, CBRE and Randstad Poland, we want to talk broadly, is the idea of a four-day working week our near future, or is it just a temporary whim of wealthy companies? What are the arguments for the reduction of working time, and what else do we need to consider? How does it work in practice? How will it effect the demand for commercial property? And is the Polish labour code ready for such radical change?

We will try to answer these and other questions during the stationary event on April 28, 2022. (10:00-12:00 CET)

The event is organized in cooperation with the British-Polish Chamber of Commerce and the Netherlands-Polish Chamber of Commerce.

AGENDA:

10:00 -  Registration and welcome

10:15 - "A four-day working week. The madness of rich companies or the new reality"
             Łukasz Chodkowski, Managing Director, Déhora Polska

10:35 - "4-day working week based on the labor code"
             Marzena Rosler - Borakiewicz, Legal Advisor | Partner | HR Director, Filipiak Babicz Legal

10:55 - "A four-day working day. Experiment or real direction of changes in the strategies of the work environment?"
             Małgorzata Niewińska, Director | Head of Workplace Strategy & Change Management, CBRE
             Edyta Mika, Associate Director | Worplace Strategy & Change Management, CBRE

11:15 - Discussion panel, Moderator: Michael Dembinski, Chief Advisor, British-Polish Chamber of Commerce
            Discussion Panel participants:

            Joanna Kubik, Senior Account Manager, Randstad Polska
            Łukasz Chodkowski, Managing Director, Déhora Polska
            Marzena Rosled-Borakiewicz, Legal Advisor | Partner | HR director, Filipiak Babicz
            Małgorzata Niewińska, Director | Head of Workplace Strategy & Change Management, CBRE
            Edyta Mika, Associate Director | Worplace Strategy & Change Management, CBRE

11:45 - End of the event

NOTE: The event will be held in Polish.