The notion of working much less for a similar pay may sound utopian. However for hundreds of UK workers it grew to become a actuality on Monday with the launch of the world’s largest four-day week trial.
Some 3,300 workers from 70 UK companies are collaborating within the six-month pilot. Banks, automotive companies and even a fish and chip store signed up. Contributors are anticipated to keep up pre-trial productiveness ranges whereas working 80 per cent of their common hours.
The pilot was launched by marketing campaign group 4 Day Week World in partnership with Autonomy, a thinktank, and the 4 Day Week UK Marketing campaign. Researchers from the College of Cambridge, College of Oxford and Boston Faculty will research its impression.
“The Twentieth-century idea of a five-day working week is now not one of the best match for Twenty first-century enterprise,” mentioned Ed Siegel, CEO of Charity Financial institution, which is collaborating. “We firmly consider {that a} four-day week with no change to wage or advantages will create a happier workforce, and can have an equally optimistic impression on enterprise productiveness, buyer expertise and our social mission.”
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