Four-day weeks offer an opportunity for staff to improve their work-life balance. A small but growing number of employers are discovering the advantages of their staff working compressed hours – sometimes a nine-day fortnight rather than a four day week.
Peter Cheese, chief executive of the CIPD and chair of the government’s Flexible Working Taskforce, has indicated that a four-day...
The Spanish government has agreed to trial a four-day working week for companies interested in the idea.
Alan Jope also strongly advised all Unilever employees to be vaccinated against Covid as soon as they had the chance.
Working a four-day week on full pay is viable for most UK companies, a study of thousands of businesses has sought to demonstrate.
Spain: a four-day week is being considered as a measure that could boost jobs, productivity and help the country recover from the economic damage of the pandemic.
Unilever is to begin a year-long trial of a four-day week at its offices in New Zealand with the aim...
Introducing a four-day working week with no loss of pay in the public sector would create up to half a...
A group of cross-party MPs has written to chancellor Rishi Sunak asking him to consider a four-day working week.
If the four-day week is to be a realistic option for businesses, work needs to be done on how it can be made to suit companies of different sizes.
A future Labour government would reduce the average working week to 32 hours, shadow councillor John McDonnell has told delegates at the party's Brighton conference.
Worried about Brexit squeezing UK productivity? One solution could be monitoring the quality of employees’ rest time, writes Paul Dickinson....
A quarter of workers would rather work part time, for less money, if they knew it would have no impact...
The working week should be cut to 21 hours to boost employment and the economy, a think-tank has suggested.The New...
A council asking its staff to work reduced hours or take unpaid leave to save jobs has been applauded by...
Staff at ‘Big Four’ accountancy firm KPMG have overwhelmingly backed a new flexible working scheme to safeguard their jobs.More than...
