Employers across the UK will be trialling a four day working week from June 1, 2022.
The trial will give all employees the option of an extended weekend with no loss of pay. The scheme is based on the idea that staff will get 100% of their salary for 80% of the time, and hopefully maintain 100% productivity.
There will be 60 businesses taking part, with 3,000 staff among them. Companies that have signed up to the trial range from large marketing firms to charities and breweries and the campaign will run for six months.
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It comes amid growing interest in the potential benefits of giving workers an extra day off. Because of this, the employers will work with researchers to record the impact on productivity, and they will also track 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
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Scotland's International Development Alliance - industry body for Scottish charities
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Amplitude - tech firm
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Stemette Futures - education organisation
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We Are Purposeful - activism organisation
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Comcen - computer supplies retailer
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