One hundred companies in the UK have signed up to a four-day working week for its employees with no loss of pay.
It means that 2,600 staff members will now benefit from a new work pattern that could include a three-day weekend. Supporters of the scheme argue that workers will be just as productive than if they were on a five-day working week.
Two of the biggest companies to sign up to the scheme include global marketing company Awin and Atom Bank, who employ 450 staff in the UK between them. Awin's chief executive, Adam Ross, said the four-day working week was "one of the most transformative initiatives we've seen in the history of the company".
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He said: “Over the course of the last year and a half, we have not only seen a tremendous increase in employee wellness and wellbeing but concurrently, our customer service and relations, as well as talent relations and retention also have benefited.”
When Atom Bank announced it was heading for a four-day week, CEO Mark Mullen said: “We believe the 20th-century concept of a five day week is, in many cases, no longer fit for purpose for 21st-century businesses. At Atom, we feel the time is right for the next evolution in the world of work.
“A four-day week will provide our employees with more opportunities to pursue their passions, spend time with their families, and build a healthier work/life balance. We firmly believe that this will prove beneficial for our employees’ wellbeing and happiness and that it will have an equally positive impact on business productivity and customer experience.”
All companies that have signed up for the scheme
- 3D Issue
- 448 Studio
- 64 Million Artists
- 92 Minutes
- Acuity Solutions
- Advantage Business Partnerships
- Advice Direct Scotland
- Atlas Translations
- Autonomy
- BJP Consulting Group Ltd
- Barefoot Architects
- BiBO
- Big Potato Games
- Blink
- Brett Nicholls Associates
- Butcher Bayley Architects
- CMG Technologies
- Causeway Irish Housing Association
- Charlton Morris
- City to Sea
- Civo
- Coltech Global
- Common Knowledge
- Cooked Illustrations
- Counting King Limited
- Crystallised
- DataLease
- DigiLab
- Digital Guerrilla Consultancy
- EDG Gaming
- Earth Science Partnership
- Elektra Lighting
- Escape the City
- Esteem Training
- Evolved
- FLOCC
- Formedix
- Forward Space
- Four Day Week Ltd
- Geeks for Social Change
- Global Partners Digital
- Gracefruit
- Greenpost
- Gungho Marketing
- HearFocus
- Hello Heat Pumps
- Hello Starling
- Highfield Professional Solutions
- JMK Solicitors
- Legacy Events
- LIT Communication
- MATS Consultancy
- MRL
- NEON
- New Vision Digital Marketing
- Original Consultants Ltd
- Oriel Square
- Paul David Smith Photography
- Prtcullis Legals
- STC Expeditions
- Tyler Grange Group Ltd
- Whyfield
- Xaso
- Payflo
- Pollard Media Ltd
- Pool
- Punch Craetive
- PureFluent
- Reboot
- Resilience Brokers
- Reward Agency
- SEOMG!
- STOP AIDS
- Social Enterprise Direct
- Softer Success
- Sinister Fish Games
- StreamGO
- Talewind
- Target Publishing
- Technovent
- Team Norse Thunder
- Tribera
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- The Circle
- T-Cup Studios
- The UPAC Group
- Think Productive
- This is Beyond
- Thryve
- Time Appointments
- PTHR
- Uniqodo
- Vault City Brewing
- Venture Stream
- YWCA Scotland
- Zync Digital
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