OEM Advanced RV Finds Success with Four-Day Workweek – RVBusiness – Breaking RV Industry News
Many people have been coming into their workplaces less frequently than they used to in the days before COVID and the era of flexible schedules, according to an article at Crain’s Cleveland Business.
Except, of course, for those in manufacturing jobs. They still need to come in five days a week if the nation’s plants and factories are going to continue to pump out their products as they’ve always done.
But one Northeast Ohio manufacturer didn’t accept that his business couldn’t be a little more flexible. Employees couldn’t make the stuff they made in the factory in their own home — but did they really need to be coming in five days a week for eight hours each day?
Mike Neundorfer didn’t think so. He thought his people could work 32 hours a week and his business would still do well.
“People have lives,” said Neundorfer, the founder and owner of Advanced RV in Willoughby.
And Neundorfer wanted his valued employees, as well as himself, to enjoy more of those lives. But he didn’t want to make less stuff.
Instead of working Monday through Friday, they would either work Monday through Thursday or Tuesday through Friday, still at 8 hours each day.
But here’s the real kicker: their pay (all of Advanced RV’s employees are salaried) and benefits would not change. Seen through an hourly lens, they got a 20% raise.
In return, Neundorfer said he explained that the company needed to maintain productivity in the process. It would be largely left up to his employees to figure out how they could produce as much in four days as they once did in five. The company and its plant would continue to run five days a week, but Neundorfer said he hired no extra people to make that happen.
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