More than 1,400 workers made the move to a four-day working week in 2025
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Workers switched to 32-hour weeks with no loss of pay or benefits
Nearly 11% of the workforce now report doing four days across full- and part-time work, analysis finds
Recent 4-day workweek experiments show workers love it, and even businesses benefit from the change. Here's how teams can nail…
Move comes as South Cambridgeshire becomes first UK local authority to vote to make work pattern permanent
Juliet Schor has researched the impacts of a four-day workweek on 245 businesses and 8,700 people.
The move comes despite one in ten businesses reporting that staff have quit over a lack of flexible working
