A four-day work week is set to be trialled in more than 30 companies in the UK. Workers will be living the dream during a six-month trial that will reduce their working hours, but not pay.Starting in June, the trial will "herald in a bold new way of working in 2022" as it measures whether employees can be just as productive working over four days than five.Research has previously shown that 78 per cent of staff are reportedly happier and less stressed by this work schedule.
The New Zealand-based non-profit 4 Day Week Global is leading the pilot in partnership with think tank Autonomy, the 4 Day Week UK Campaign, along with researchers at Oxford University, Boston College and Cambridge University.
The experiment was expanded to include 2,500 public and private sector workers and union workers with police, healthcare workers, teachers, shop assistants and council workers among those taking part in the trial.
The UK trial is due in part to the success of the pilot in New Zealand and Spain. Among the participants is the Canon Medical Research Europe in Edinburgh and its 140 employees.
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