Four-day week

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London Underground drivers have voted in favour of the 34-hour, four-day working week.

More than a dozen MPs are calling on ministers to consider a four-day working week as part of the Employment Rights Bill.

Two hundred UK companies have now signed up for a permanent four-day working week, according to the 4 Day Week Foundation.

The situation at South Cambridgeshire District Council (SCDC) is described as “nuttier than a squirrel’s brunch”

The UK’s labour market outlook is uncertain following October’s budget announcement, data from Indeed indicates.

Almost half of managers in the UK admit that being in the office is more about appearance, according to new research from Indeed.

The government could save around £21.4m a year if it allowed civil servants to work four days a week, a union claims

The government has decided to allow a local authority to proceed with its four-day working week arrangement.

The first official pilot of a four-day week under the Labour government begins today (4 November), with a view to presenting the findings next summer.

The government has denied it has any plan to impose any plan to impose a four-day week on business.

Second trial of a four-day week is scheduled to launch this autumn as campaigners urge employers to sign up.

One of the largest trials of a four-day week in the UK led to greater retention and better productivity, according to the researchers following it.

Fifty-one per cent of employees would be tempted to take a job at a different organisation if it offered a four-day working week.

A four-day work week could risk widening existing inequalities between workers, a report commissioned for the Welsh Government has warned.