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Fortune
Ryan Hogg

U.K. workers could legally demand a compressed 4-day week

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U.K. workers are set to win new rights to work four days a week under government plans to improve flexibility, but workers will still face a battle to get shorter weeks past their bosses.

Under a new flexible working bill, U.K. workers could legally demand the opportunity to compress their weekly working hours into four days. That would result in employees working four 10-hour days compared with the default of five eight-hour days.

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