4 Day Week Campaign to Launch a 2nd Four-Day Week Pilot in the UK This Autumn

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jul/10/four-day-week-campaign-to-launch-pilot-looking-at-flexible-working

by okjob_io

10 comments

  1. tl;dr: The 4 Day Week Campaign and flexible working consultancy Timewise have partnered to launch a second four-day week pilot in the UK this Autumn, with research support from University of Cambridge, Boston College and the Autonomy Institute. The six-month pilot is scheduled to begin on November 4 with trainings and workshops starting in mid-September.

  2. Great for cosy wfh middle class types, shit for the hourly paid

  3. I’ve never got this campaign. If it’s better for both employees and the business then companies will do their own trial and see the advantages and then get a competitive advantage.

  4. 4 on 4 off is the future.

    Me and my Wife moved to this in 2017. We work 6 months a year. One weeks holiday is 12 days off in a row. Never need childcare.

    We have a set routine where all the household jobs are done equally, we cook each other tea for when we finish. We see each other every night and time our holidays together.

    Sure we work weekends but neither of us mind.

  5. This will never happen where I work. Due to being a “professional” there’s some expectation that we put in a few extra hours a week, admittedly the salary reflects this, but if somehow we were to compress the working week into 4 days any extra hours would disappear. The really keen might do more but personally I don’t want to be working into the evening.

    It was also probably more feasible while I was WFH as I wasn’t wasting an hour on the motorway every day, but now they want us in at least 3 days a week,

    Would love to see it happen though. The only way it would work for me would be going part time and taking the wage hit.

  7. Exmptions anyone who works in the following fields:

    Medicine

    Care

    Logistics

    Emergency services

    Armed forces

    any one who doesn’t work in a air conidtioned office.

  8. I appreciate this article is saying 4 days can be a win for employers and workers but what about service users or customers? Or are these jobs not reliant on that type of thing?

    I don’t understand how if a business needs to stay competitive or grow, it can cut its workforce/availability by 20%. Or is it that it was bad management and there was a lot of slack in the system?

  9. I’ve done WFH 4 day weeks since 2006 at the request of a director when I moved country. Best thing ever. However if my company moved to 4 days across the board, with the same pay as 5 days, then I’m not sure how to approach them… I mean i reduced to 4 days, but wasn’t on the same pay. I literally lost a pay day per week…

  10. This really should not be allowed to work across the board in certain industries.

    Unless I’ve got completely distracted reading the article it seems to suggest the ENTIRE organisation is on that same schedule?

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