Six months on after taking part in the world's biggest pilot of the four-day working week, Andrew Rose says you couldn't pay him any amount of money to return to five days. He's a director at a brain injury case management firm - AKA Case Management - which was just one of the 70 companies that signed up for the global experiment into the reduced working pattern.
It saw 3,000 people being paid 100 per cent of their salary but for 80 per cent of the hours they would usually work, with many going from 40 to 32 hours per week. It came to a close this week, with results to be published in February 2023.
Culling meetings and being told to close down email when working on a task are just some of the initiatives Andrew's firm has been doing to fit their workload into a shortened period. And on their extra days off, colleagues have picked up hobbies, enjoyed downtime and have been able to get through chores and life admin without it eating into their weekends.
