Four-day week trial to go ahead in UK from June - see if your employer is taking part
In total, 60 firms with 3,000 staff have signed up to take part in a pilot four-day week project here in Britain - giving all employees a three-day weekend with no loss of pay

Compressed hours but a longer weekend - are you an advocate of the four-day week?
Compressed hours but a longer weekend - are you an advocate of the four-day week? (Image: Getty Images)
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ByEmma MunbodhMoney Editor
14:57, 5 Apr 2022UPDATED10:10, 6 Apr 2022
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A four-day working week trial will officially begin in the UK from June 1, giving all employees the option of an extended weekend with no loss of pay.

Sixty firms with 3,000 staff have signed up to take part in a pilot run by campaign group 4 Day Week Global - and it will run for six months.

The scheme is based on the idea that staff will get 100% of their salary for 80% of the time, and hopefully maintain 100% productivity.

It comes amid growing interest in the potential benefits of giving workers an extra day off.

Companies that have signed up to the trial range from large marketing firms to charities and breweries.

During the pilot, the businesses will work with researchers to record the impact on productivity.

They will also track worker wellbeing and the impact on the environment and gender equality.

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Atom Bank become one of the most recent adaptors of the four-day week last year when it moved to a permanent long-weekend without deducting pay.

Instead of reducing employees' hours, it made the four working days longer.

Some companies have trimmed hours down to give workers permanent 32-hour weeks with no loss of pay.

Internationally, in August 2019, Microsoft Japan implemented a four-day week giving 2,300 employees five Fridays off in a row.

The company said productivity jumped 40%, meetings were more efficient, and workers - who were also happier - took less time off.

In Iceland, a four day working week trial was carried out between 2015 and 2019 and labelled an “overwhelming success” by researchers.

Workplaces that took part, including hospitals and schools, moved from 40 hour weeks to 36 or 35 hours with some reporting an improved level of productivity among employees.

The trial eventually involved more than 2,500 workers, equal to approximately 1 per cent of Iceland's workforce.

foryourmindlol:
"Britain don't know what they're doing to themselves.

"When this IPOB madness started, we warned them. Now see them sitting at home one day every week.

"We warned them."

- Voice of Omenka and 99 other pained yoonity beggars

OyeofIkoTuN:
LOL....stop am abeg,the situation different biko

foryourmindlol:

Is their 4-day working day different from the one in Southeast?


Omenka and his 99 yoonity beggars said that if you miss one day of work then your economy will collapse and fail.

Can't wait for UK economy to fail and be worse than Nigeria

tobolos:
The Russia-Ukraine war is causing huge energy crises on these countries.People are being advised to work from home to cut energy needs. Nigeria is suppose to be cashing out on this but our mumu government no dey see road.

NoQualmz:
Ipob male mistakes always looking for a way to either justify their foolishness or blame somebody，

foryourmindlol:
UAE, New Zealand, Spain, etc are now suffering from Afghaneastern. According to zombies in the zoo.