The Four-Day Workweek Rub

Tuesday, November 14, 2023

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Welcome to Front Page, where we break down Gallup's latest insights on our constantly evolving world. Here are the five insights you shouldn't miss this week:

1. The Four-Day Workweek Rub

Bar Chart: Comparing employee engagement and wellbeing among workers by length of work week and location.

It seems like everyone is talking about the four-day workweek, but does it really create a better work environment? Our latest workplace audit, based on over 12,000 interviews with U.S. employees, shows that while there is a significantly higher rate of thriving (wellbeing) among those doing four-day weeks, a shorter workweek also correlates with higher levels of employee disengagement.
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2. Ho-Ho-Holiday Shopping

Bar Chart: Ranking the most influential motivations behind holiday purchases in 2023.

In our recent study with Shopify on how, for what, and when Americans plan to get shopping, we find that Cyber Monday trumps Black Friday and that about two-thirds of folks planning to shop will be looking for something for themselves as well as buying gifts. But most interesting was what motivates shoppers to make the purchase. It's not celebrity endorsements or clever marketing campaigns that do the trick, but rather the more old-fashioned factors of personal experience with a product/brand and word-of-mouth.
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3. Dear Guys, Get Cooking!

Line Chart: Men cooked an average of 4 meals per week globally in 2022.

In Cookpad and Gallup's latest study of global cooking habits, the gap between men and women who say they cook has grown for the first time since the pandemic. But that's not true everywhere; shout out to Italian men, who break the mold on this question. In our fifth year tracking global cooking habits, we learned a lot about how COVID-19 affected home cooking — but also that many of those changes didn't persist as the world rebounded to its pre-pandemic normal. How does your country rank?
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4. Gaza's Children

Line Chart: 28% of Gazans said that children had an opportunity to learn and grow in 2022.

In our poll of the Palestinian Territories before the most recent violence in the region, we found that fewer than three in 10 Palestinians in Gaza (28%) said children in their area have the opportunity to learn and grow. This rate was below the 36% among Palestinians in the West Bank and east Jerusalem and far below last year's average of 50% across the Middle East and North Africa.
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5. Going Back to Afghanistan

Line Chart: 11% of women in Afghanistan were satisfied with the freedom to choose what to do with their lives in 2023.

As the world focuses on the Middle East conflict and Ukraine, a massive, forced repatriation is taking place on the Pakistan-Afghan border. Hundreds of thousands of Afghans are now heading back to their country of origin, among them some children seeing the nation for the first time. They head to a country that now holds the global record in Gallup polling for the lowest rate of women who are satisfied with the freedom to choose what they do with their lives.
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And that's Front Page!

Mohamed Younis
Editor-in-Chief
Gallup

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