Workers in the United Kingdom are being offered the chance to work four-day weeks with no loss of earnings.
A six-month pilot programme announced on Monday is recruiting companies to study the impact of shorter working hours on businesses’ productivity and the well-being of their workers, as well as the impact on the environment and gender equality.
The companies will follow the 100:80:100 model, where workers receive 100 per cent of the pay for 80 per cent of the time - in return for committing to maintaining 100 per cent of their previous productivity.
"The four-day week challenges the current model of work and helps companies move away from simply measuring how long people are 'at work', to a sharper focus on the output being produced," said Joe O'Connor, manager of the pilot scheme for 4 Day Week Global.
The programme, which is being run by researchers at Cambridge and Oxford Universities and Boston College, as well as the non-profit advocacy groups 4 Day Week Global, the 4 Day Week UK Campaign and UK think tank Autonomy, aims to recruit 30 UK companies by the time it begins in June this year.
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