, with thousands of workers across 61 companies working for four days instead of five with no loss of pay, among them workers from Canon's UK arm.
The British trial – said to be the biggest of its kind – was run by Autonomy , Boston College in the US, the British universities of Oxford and Cambridge, as well as the campaign groups 4 Day Week Global and 4 Day Week UK. 4 Day Week Global, a multinational nonprofit, is running pilot programs in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, and offers support to those considering the shift.
According to the report, the positive effects of a four-day week were worth more than their weight in cash . Some of the staffers who participated in the British trial provided some anecdotal evidence, with 15 percent saying"no amount of money" would induce them to accept a five-day schedule over the four-day week to which they were now accustomed. But the results themselves tallied with this.
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