Around 70 companies are taking part in what is thought to be the world's biggest pilot scheme into the working pattern over the next six months.
Companies ranging from office-based software developers and recruitment firms to charities and a local fish and chip shop are taking part.Sam Smith, whose North London brewery business Pressure Drop, said it felt "like a good time" for the firm to be trying different working practices. She explained that having worked with the business for more than four years and knowing she can do her job has led her to feeling confident she can get her work done efficiently with one day less.
"The UK trial is historic", said Juliet Schor, the lead researcher on the Global 4-day week project, and an economist and sociologist at Boston College. Girling Jones, a small construction recruitment firm in Exeter switched to a four-day week in January, but has also signed up to the trial"All our inputs - calls, meetings, interviews, are up...quite simply everyone is doing more in less time," he added.Staff are happier too - Ellen Andreassen said she uses her day off to relax.
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