What’s happened?
The world’s largest trial to date of a four-day working week – with no drop in salary – has just published its results, with the organisers claiming a “resounding success” in terms of both commercial benefits and happier, healthier staff. The trial was run by the non-profit advocacy group 4 Day Week Global, with input from think-tank Autonomy, plus academics at Boston College (in the US) and Cambridge University. The scheme involved 61 firms and 2,900 workers in sectors ranging from banks to fast-food restaurants to marketing agencies – and it ran in the UK from
