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More than 3,300 workers at 70 UK companies, ranging from a local chippy to large financial firms, start working a four-day week from Monday with no loss of pay in the world’s biggest trial of the new working pattern.
The pilot is running for six months and is being organised by 4 Day Week Global in partnership with the thinktank Autonomy, the 4 Day Week Campaign, and researchers at Cambridge University, Oxford University and Boston College.
The trial is based on the 100:80:100 model – 100% of pay for 80% of the time, in exchange for a commitment to maintain 100% productivity.
Are we sure this is from a psychology textbook?
Thousands of UK workers begin world’s biggest trial of four-day week
With work changed for ever by the pandemic, businesses are testing whether pilot represents a recognition that ‘the new frontier for competition is quality of life’www.theguardian.com
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Send HMRC this correspondence. If he’s lying to young folks over £20, I’d imagine his books are fun reading.
Thousands of UK workers begin world’s biggest trial of four-day week
With work changed for ever by the pandemic, businesses are testing whether pilot represents a recognition that ‘the new frontier for competition is quality of life’www.theguardian.com
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Across the team as a whole, people seem much happier and less stressed. There has been a reduction in sick days, and the change has had no impact on our standards of operation. We measure productivity through the number of jobs completed so we can see this on a daily basis through our systems. Since moving to a four-day week, remarkably we’re seeing more jobs completed on a daily basis. This has been achieved because staff are better rested. Through customer satisfaction surveys we can also see that clients are happy with our work and haven’t noticed any change.
It’s still early days for the pilot, but it seems very unlikely we will ever go back to a five-day working week.