Almost every company which took part in the recent four-day week pilot will continue with the practice with no loss of pay for staff.
A newly published report into the experiment, which has been released today by think tank Autonomy, University of Cambridge and Boston College in the US, said that, of the 61 participating companies, at least 56 were continuing with change. Eighteen of these have gone a step further and declared the policy is now permanent.
The vast majority said performance and productivity were maintained while employees reported lower levels of burnout and more time to manage childcare and other commitments.
