A total of 100 companies in the UK have permanently switched to the four-day working week for all employees without any pay loss. Guardian Report good. It added that although these companies employ just 2,600 workers in total, the 4-day week campaign group is hoping they will be the harbingers of a major change.
Companies that have decided to introduce the 4-day work week include Atom Bank and global marketing company Avin. These two firms have 450 employees each. Other companies include eFileCabinet, Velocalize, Hivemind Technologies, GoLinks, Halftone Digital, Reboot, Hutch Games, and Tailwind.
According to GuardianAvin’s chief executive officer, Adam Ross, said that adopting the four-day week was “one of the most transformational initiatives we’ve seen in the company’s history… Over the course of the past year and a half, we’ve not only made significant strides in employee wellness and well-being. Not only saw tremendous growth, but concurrently, our customer service and relationships as well as talent relationships and retention have benefited.”
The UK campaign is also co-ordinating the world’s largest pilot scheme for around 70 companies, employing around 3,300 workers, to adopt the four-day week in a trial with researchers from Cambridge and Oxford universities, Boston College and the thinktank Autonomy. report for.
In September, 88 percent of those companies surveyed in the middle of the trial said the four-day week was working “well” for their business in that phase of the trial. Nearly 95 per cent of the companies surveyed said that there has been a decrease in productivity. The Guardian said it had either remained the same or improved since its introduction.
The report quoted UK campaign director Joe Reilly as saying that there is growing momentum in adopting the four-day week, even as companies prepare for a longer recession. “We want to see the four-day week as the normal way of working in this country by the end of the decade, with no loss of pay, so we are aiming to sign up many more companies over the next few years… With many businesses struggling to afford a 10 per cent inflation pay rise, we are starting to see growing evidence that a four-day week with no loss of pay could be offered as an alternative solution. Has been.”
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