The pilot will include over 3,300 employees from 70 different companies.
The largest-ever four-day workweek trial is now being conducted in the U.K., putting Iceland's successful trial in second place, which had been run between 2015 and 2019The trial will last until January 2023 for a period of six months and involve 3,300 employees and 70 companies. Organized by not-for-profit 4 Day Week Global, Autonomy, t
he 4 Day Week UK Campaign, and researchers from Cambridge University, Oxford University, and Boston College, well-being of the employees, environmental impact, and gender equality will be among the results to be measured.Since participants will work 20 percent fewer hours than usual, they will be required to maintain 100 percent productivity without any salary cut.
"The pandemic [has] made us think a great deal about work and how people organize their lives," Sienna O'Rourke, brand manager at Pressure Drop Brewing, an independent brewery in London, ."We're doing this to improve the lives of our staff and be part of a progressive change in the world.""There’s so much research about how work expands to fill the time.
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