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Wednesday Aug 24, 2022
Wednesday Aug 24, 2022
More than 3,000 workers at 70 companies in the UK began a six-month trial of a four-day working week in June.
Researchers will work with each organisation to measure the effects on productivity and the well-being of its workers, and on the environment and gender equality. The trend toward new patterns of work has accelerated following the Covid-19 pandemic.
Charlotte Lockhart and Andrew Barnes, from non-profit 4 Day Week Global, talk to hosts Mustafa Alrawi and Kelsey Warner about how they are building a community to research four day work week practices and identify the future of work.
In this episode:
- Companies could save $206bn by adopting remote working and ease inflation pressures
- Will the world follow the UAE's modernised working week?
- Belgian workers can ask for four-day week in first for Europe
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