United Kingdom - Four-day week - December 31, 2020

According to a report working a four-day week on full pay is a perfectly way of tackling the UK’s relative lack of productivity and improving health and wellbeing among employees, The report, by independent thinktank Autonomy, analysed profitability statistics from more than 50,000 firms and used hypothetical scenarios to gauge the impact of an imposition of a four-day week. It found that a four-day week was affordable for most firms of over 50 employees.

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