However, long-term surveys have shown that the model is not effective. However, Telekom tried it.

Magyar Telekom is ending the test program of the four-day work week, Hvg.hu .

"The four-day model cannot be uniformly applied to all employees, and most of them could not work effectively in this model due to the nature of their work or their living situation"

they wrote.

152 employees of the telecommunications company tested the four-day work week between July and October 2022, and initially received positive feedback, then continued with 300 employees from February. However, long-term surveys showed that not everyone was efficient in the model.

Among the big multinationals, Telekom was the first to try the four-day work week in Hungary.

However, in 2021, Anna Donáth still wrote about the four-day work week as her party's world-saving idea:

4-day work week by 2030!

The eight-hour working day was considered a real achievement during the exploitative industrial revolution, but today we have far surpassed that.

"Systemic change, brave, innovative and ambitious goals are needed to build the new Hungary! This is what the plan of András Fekete-Győr Új Magyarország, who is running in the primary election as the ministerial candidate of Momentum, is about.

We need to rethink our relationship to work in the 21st century. It is not true that the quantity of work is value in itself. I know a lot of people with families, fathers and mothers, parents raising their children alone, who squeeze in something in addition to their second job, so that their children have something to eat at the end of the month, and they don't fall behind with utilities.

We are building a humane country where an increasing part of the work can be modernized, because there is no need to be addicted to work, to get lost in the daily robot.

We are building a just country, where people will receive a fair salary for 1 job, 8 hours and 4 days a week.

This is all possible if we decide: we no longer see our country as an assembly plant, but as an inventive workshop. Our products should not only say that they were made in Hungary, but also that they were invented in Hungary. We have a place at the planning table.”

Well, kids, it didn't come. More precisely: this didn't work either, just like the eternal life-free beer combo.

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