Every weekend could be a long weekend as a four-day working week trial will officially begin in the UK from June 1.
The new work format will give all employees the option of an extended weekend with no loss of pay in the hope that staff will get 100% of their salary for 80% of the time and maintain 100% productivity.
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Sixty firms with 3,000 staff have signed up to take part in a pilot run by campaign group 4 Day Week Global - and it will run for six months.
It comes amid growing interest in the potential benefits of giving workers an extra day off and companies that have signed up to the trial range from large marketing firms to charities and breweries.
During the pilot, the businesses will work with researchers to record the impact on productivity as well as tracking worker wellbeing and the impact on the environment and gender equality.
Which companies are offering a four-day week as part of the trial?
Sixty firms based in the UK will participate in the trial, but just 28 have agreed to be publicly named.
These employers include:
- Hutch - game developers
- Yo Telecom - telecoms services
- Adzooma - online marketing company
- Pressure Drop Brewing - brewery
- Happy - workplace consultancy services
- Platten’s Fish and Chips - chip shop in Norfolk
- Eurowagens - car parts retailer
- Bookishly - online book and gifts shop
- Outcomes First Group - education and foster care services
- NeatClean - eco cleaning products firm
- 5 Squirrels - skincare branding consultancy
- Salamandra - animation studios
- Girling Jones - recruitment firm
- AKA Case Management - case management firm
- IE Brand & Digital - marketing company
- Helping Hands - at-home care services
- Trio Media - marketing agency
- Literal Humans - marketing agency
- Physiquipe - rehabilitation tech firm
- Tyler Grange - landscape planning consultancy
- Timberlake Consultants – software engineering firm
- Royal Society of Biology - professional body
- Everledge - tech firm
Scotland's International Development Alliance - industry body for Scottish charities
Amplitude - tech firm
Stemette Futures - education organisation
We Are Purposeful - activism organisation
Comcen - computer supplies retailer
