Even though just 2% of Scottish employers who have not yet reduced hours plan to reduce working hours without reducing pay over the next three years, a third of Scottish organisations think the four-day week will become a reality in the UK for most workers within the next decade.
A majority of Scottish employers believe that a shift to a four-day week, without reducing pay, would depend on their organisation improving efficiency (63%), or firms boosting the adoption of technology (68%).
This is according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), which carried out a survey of 2,000 employers - 144 from Scotland - in addition to using ONS labour force data on people’s working hours.
