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The four-day week sounds great – but we need the private sector on board for it to work
There’s something rather frustrating about hailing the success of four-day week trials knowing full well that you’ll probably never experience it. The reality is that flexible working practices such as these simply might not work in certain industries – and there’s nothing wrong with that. But for those who can secure better working arrangements, we should still be pushing our…
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Can the four-day week work for tech?
It’s that time of year when the clocks change and the nights draw in, the familiar starts to take on a new aspect as the shadows lengthen, and in the world of IT, trends that have been taken for granted are also starting to take on a new shape. As countries battle productivity problems, can they replicate the success of…
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New four-day week trial kicks off for workers across UK
Momentum towards a four-day week is building, with a new pilot scheme by the 4 Day Week Campaign set to involve a thousand UK workers. The trial will include 17 businesses, and will see staff working a four-day week with no loss of pay. One organization taking part is the British Society for Immunology (BSI), which from this week will…
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Iceland’s four-day working week trials have been a roaring success – economic growth spiked, workers were happier, and burnout plummeted
Iceland’s shift to a shorter working week has coincided with its economy outperforming most of Europe, according to research from organizations backing four-day working weeks. Between 2015 and 2019, Iceland ran two large trials of the so-called four-day working week across government, later leading to a labor rights agreement led by local trade unions that enshrined the right to shorter…
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