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POLL: Would You Like a 4-Day Working Week as Change Expected 'Within 10 Years'?
- Earlier this week, the UK national four-day working week trial involving 17 companies and nearly 1,000 employees concluded with a 100% success rate.
- Last November, the 4 Day Week Foundation and Boston College researchers launched a six-month trial involving nearly 1,000 employees across diverse UK firms, testing reduced hours without pay cuts.
- According to the Foundation, 62% of employees reported less burnout, 41% saw mental health improvements, and productivity remained steady across 17 firms in the successful six-month UK trial.
- With the trial concluded, all 17 firms chose to continue or adapt the four-day week, with 12 adopting it permanently and five opting for a nine-day fortnight.
- Advocates note growing momentum for four-day weeks, despite the UK government ruling out an immediate mandate and ongoing pilots supporting wider adoption.
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Four-day workweek advocates lean into the use of AI
Advocates of the four-day workweek are using artificial intelligence as a way to achieve their goal of shortening the workweek without pay cuts. Roger Kirkness, CEO of Convictional, joins to discuss how implementing a four-day workweek has impacted his employees.
All companies trialling four-day working week opt to keep it after successful pilot
All 17 companies that took part in the latest UK trial of a four-day working week have opted to continue with the model or a variation of it, after seeing benefits in staff wellbeing, mental health and productivity. The six-month trial, organised by the 4 Day Week Foundation and monitored by researchers at Boston College in the US, involved nearly 1,000 employees across a diverse range of organisations — from housing associations and professiona…
Nearly a thousand British workers are continuing the four-day workweek after a recent successful pilot program in which all participating companies decided to maintain the shortened working hours with full pay, wrote <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/03/nearly-1000-britons-adopt-permanently-shorter-working-week-after-trial" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Guardian</a>.
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