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<\/p>\nSeveral Brits are to take part in a four-day working week and will receive full pay in "future of work trial."<\/p>\n
In the last six years, companies around the world have successfully trialled a four-day working system and now the UK are testing it out.<\/p>\n
The six-month trial will test whether employees can work at 100 per cent productivity for 80 per cent of the time.<\/p>\n
Over 30 companies will take part in the "bold new way of working in 2022," says researchers.<\/p>\n
The staff of the companies will receive the same amount of money as if they were working a five day week.<\/p>\n
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Research has shown that 78 per cent of staff are reportedly happier and less stressed by this way of working.<\/p>\n
The pilot is being led by 4 Day Week Global in partnership with the think tank Autonomy, the 4 Day Week UK Campaign and researchers at Oxford University, Boston College, and Cambridge University.<\/p>\n
Pilot programme manager for 4 Day Week Global, Joe O\u2019Connor said: \u201cMore and more businesses are moving to productivity focused strategies to enable them to reduce worker hours without reducing pay.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe are excited by the growing momentum and interest in our pilot program and in the four-day week more broadly."<\/p>\n
Joe went on to explain how companies measure employees time.<\/p>\n
He continued: \u201cThe four-day week challenges the current model of work and helps companies move away from simply measuring how long people are \u201cat work\u201d, to a sharper focus on the output being produced. 2022 will be the year that heralds in this bold new future of work.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Initially the experiment only included a dew dozen public sector workers who were members of unions however it has since expanded to 2,500 employees from both public and private sectors.<\/p>\n
Police, healthcare workers, teachers, shop assistants and council workers were among those taking part in the trial.<\/p>\n
Due to the trial being successful in New Zealand and Spain it has led the experiment to be pushed by people in the UK.<\/p>\n
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