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Want to get your employer to apply for the experiment? Hurry – the deadline is in March.

If they win, the millennial media brand could become the first major UK news publisher to implement a four-day 32-hour working week, with more than 50 employees affected. Ruby Lott-Lavigna, mother of the Vice UK NUJ Union chapel, said: “The pandemic has shown that work practices once deemed impossible – such as remote working on a global scale – can be implemented without a company imploding on itself. “The union believes that now is the time to introduce new working practices, like a four day week. Fewer work hours would allow higher productivity and a happier workforce, something w...

Let’s Give Some Serious Thought To a Four-Day Week A number of companies recently evaluated the idea of a four-day week in exchange for lower wages.   There is growing support from the public and private sector that the solution to the crisis could lie not in working more, but in working less, but more productively. This is an idea I have written about before, and is one that now sounds more and more like a possibility: after all, the five-working-day week is an artificial convention that can be modified. Experiments carried out around the world seem to show that reducing the time we spend...