IJR has stated it will return to four-day working week.
IJR’s facility in Arizona
The company said in a press release that it previously adopted a four-day week from Monday to Thursday during “the last fuel crisis” in order to “reduce the burden on our employees who often commute fairly long distances”. The four-day week in turn allowed the company to “reduce our costs” and help maintain “our low, competitive pricing”, with “lengthened hours” over the four-day week seeing staff start at 7am and finish at 5pm.
Now, IJR has found that “production actually increased overall” during the adoption of the four-day week, and that it was “easily able to keep up with orders and shipments in a timely fashion despite the change”. As a result, and in light of other “private and public” businesses adopting a similar model, the company has decided to “return to our four-day work week” from 28 July.
Currently based in Phoenix Arizona, IJR was founded in 1978 in Santa Ana, California, specialising in products for the imaging supplies market such as plotter pens, industrial markers and speciality inks. However, since the rise of inkjet technology in the 1990s, the company shifted focus to remanufacturing and recycling inkjet cartridges.
IJR moved to Arizona in 1996, and claims it was the first company worldwide to recycle inkjet cartridges. The company reported on its 35th year of business last year.