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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Mark Chaffey

‘Burnout, inequality and poor service – the real outcome of the four-day week’

I co-founded my business while I was at uni. I know how valuable it is to have the flexibility to navigate work and personal life. I’ve lost count of how many weird and wonderful hours I’ve worked – in the early days squeezing lectures in around getting the business off the ground and leaving nights out with my mates early to be fresh for morning meetings to now where I’m about to spend the week in the US and juggle work commitments in both time zones.

This is why I find it perplexing that the confinement of a one-size-fits-all working pattern - which, by the way, is exactly what the four-day week is – is gaining so much hype.

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