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1xvegas Inside the Four-Day Workweek Experiment
On a recent Wednesday morning, Matt Kimber did not sign into his job as a senior engineer at a software company. Instead, he went for a walk around his London neighborhood, picked up lunch at a cafe, and played with his two greyhounds.
His employer, BrandPipe, was pleased to hear it. The company is one of several British businesses testing a four-day workweek with no reduction in pay, part of a six-month trial involving about 1,000 workers organized by the advocacy group 4 Day Week.
After a previous pilot in 2022, 56 of 61 participating companies, or 92 percent, said they would continue with the four-day week, the group said. It is hoping to pave the way for a 32-hour, four-day week to be enshrined under British legislation, reducing the maximum number of hours currently allowed by law. Similar efforts have taken hold in Iceland, New Zealand, Scotland and the United States.
“It’s sound business sense,” said Geoff Slaughter, a co-founder of BrandPipe. “If you’ve got a team that’s happy, you’re less likely to lose them.”
“Having looked at the research, frankly it seemed like a no-brainer,” said Anne-Marie Irwin, a partner at Rook Irwin Sweeney, a British law firm specializing in public law and human rights that is also participating in the trial.
Both were optimistic that their businesses could maintain or even increase their output. Still, they found the transition to a shorter workweek requires some rethinking around the office.
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