Culling meetings and being told to close down email when working on a task - these are just some of the initiatives one company has taken to be able to fit five days’ worth of work into four.
As of last week, staff at AKA Case Management are being paid 100 per cent of their salary but for 80 per cent of the hours they would usually work, going from 40 to 32 hours per week. The brain injury case management firm is one of the 70 companies that has signed up for the world's biggest pilot scheme into the working pattern over the next six months.
The trial is being organised by 4 Day Week Global in partnership with think tank Autonomy, the 4 Day Week UK Campaign, and researchers at Cambridge University, Oxford University and Boston College. AKA has employees working from home across the country, with 14-full time employees taking part in the trial, including a few living in and around Manchester.
