TRIAL OF 4-DAY WEEK KICKS OFF IN UK WITH THOUSANDS OF PARTICIPANTS

Tue 07 June 2022:

On Monday, the United Kingdom began a statewide trial of a four-day work week.

It includes 70 companies and over 3,300 employees, making it the world’s largest pilot of its sort.

A four-day working week does not involve a loss of pay for employees, who will be asked to maintain 100% productivity while working 80% of their hours.

The project will monitor employee happiness and corporate productivity, as well as environmental and gender equality effects.

The pilot is being run by non-profit group 4 Day Week Global in partnership with the think tank Autonomy, the 4 Day Week UK national campaign, and researchers from Cambridge and Oxford universities and Boston College.

Joe O’Connor, chief executive of 4 Day Week Global, said the UK is “at the crest of a wave of global momentum behind the four-day week.”

“As we emerge from the pandemic, more and more companies are recognizing that the new frontier for competition is quality of life, and that reduced-hour, output-focused working is the vehicle to give them a competitive edge,” he said.

“The impact of the ‘great resignation’ is now proving that workers from a diverse range of industries can produce better outcomes while working shorter and smarter.”

Scotland will explore a reduced workweek model later this year, while other European countries including Belgium, Iceland, and Sweden, as well as Japan and the United Arab Emirates, have already done so.

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