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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Joanna Partridge

More than 200,000 UK workers switch to four-day week since 2019

Commuters walking across London Bridge
Some workers have had to battle for the right to continue working from home, let alone reduce their number of working days. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

More than 100,000 workers in the UK have switched to a full-time four-day week since the pandemic, in a further sign of the revolution in the world of work inspired by Covid, according to an analysis.

Nearly 1.4 million people said they worked full-time on four days of the week between October and December 2024, an increase of more than 100,000 compared with the same period in 2019, when 1.29 million reported this work schedule, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

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