Supermarket Morrisons has scrapped its four-day work week for head-office staff, as staff complained about working on weekends.
Four years ago, the supermarket brought in the four-day week, cutting the amount of working hours for head-office workers from 40 to 37.5 but requiring employees to work 13 Saturdays over the course of a year, the equivalent of one Saturday every four weeks.
But this week, Morrisons has scrapped that plan and will instead make staff work those 37.5 hours over a four-and-a-half day workweek. The news was first reported in The Grocer, which said the change was due to complaints about the weekend working.
The change comes just a week after rival Asda announced it was bringing in a four-day work week of its own.
A number of businesses across the UK have trialled a four-day work week. After a trial involving 61 companies and around 2,900 workers in 2022, 56 of the firms involved said they would continue with the four-day week.
Morrisons, the UK’s fifth-largest supermarket, has faced questions of late about its ownership, after having been bought by American private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in 2021 in a heavily debt-funded deal.
