تطبیق اطلاعات و تطبیق ویژگی‌ها (چه کسی چه گفت؟)

A Over the past few years, a number of companies have tried a four-day working week, usually without cutting pay. Supporters say that staff are happier and just as productive; critics warn that the results so far come from a small and unusual group of firms. B Economist Dr Lucy Evans has studied twenty of these trials. 'The companies that volunteered were mostly small offices whose bosses already believed in the idea,' she says. 'We shouldn't be surprised that it worked for them. The real test will be hospitals, schools and factories, where you can't simply finish the same work in less time.' C Occupational psychologist Professor Daniel Okafor is more optimistic. In his view, the extra day off matters less than what it forces managers to do. 'When you lose a day, you have to cut pointless meetings and endless email chains. Many firms discover that a large part of the week was being wasted anyway.' D Not every employee welcomes the change, however. Restaurant owner Clara Jensen introduced a four-day week for her kitchen staff but abandoned it after eight months. 'The days became so long and intense that several of my chefs asked to go back to five shorter ones,' she explains. E Dr Evans expects that, within ten years, the four-day week will be common in office jobs but rare elsewhere. Professor Okafor disagrees: he believes that once workers have experienced it, pressure to extend it to other sectors will grow.