The move is an attempt to fill vacant roles amid a continuing staff shortage crisis as employees “demand more” from employers after the pandemic.
| UK employers desperate to recruit and retain Gen Z workers are increasingly offering “early finish Fridays” to try to fill vacant roles amid a continuing staff shortage crisis.
The perk appears to be targeted at junior staff, in roles with salaries between £20,000 and £40,000, according to Adzuna data provided to Bloomberg. It is more prominent in certain industries, as Adzuna’s live ads showed 348 early finish Friday jobs in engineering as of April 3. There were 207 similar perks offered for sales jobs, 156 in information technology roles and 90 for graduate positions.
“For jobseekers, a company offering early-finish Fridays signals that they are flexible in their attitude to working hours and care about their employees’ wellbeing – two factors of utmost importance in today’s jobs market,” Mr Hunter said in an emailed statement. A formal – if temporary – reduction in working hours also means staff can take an extra day off work when booking holidays and it would count for only half a day, said Emma, who did not want to use her full name when discussing her employer.
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