Uk to test run a test for 4-Day work in a week and three day weekend Programme aimed at measuring productivity and wellbeing of staff over six months.
Thousands of workers across different sectors of the UK economy have signed up for the global study that started on Monday – working for four days a week, while still receiving full pay.
The pilot program, which launched on June 6 and will run for six months, is organized by the nonprofit ‘4 Day Week Global’, with offices in London and New York City.
It is in partnership with the London-based thinktank Autonomy, the UK’s 4 Day Week Campaign, and researchers at Cambridge University, Oxford University and Boston College.
The researchers will analyze how employees respond to having an extra day off, studying areas such as stress and burnout, job and life satisfaction, health, sleep, energy use and travel.
“As we emerge from the pandemic, more and more companies are recognizing that the new frontier for competition is quality of life, and that reduced-hour, output-focused working is the vehicle to give them a competitive edge,” Joe O’Connor, chief executive of 4 Day Week Global, said
Recall last year, Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai had said workers in the state will commence a transition to a four-day working week to help boost productivity, improve work life balance and allow them spend more time with their families.
In a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Communication, Muyiwa Adekeye, the governor said the state government would begin implementing the transitional arrangement in the public service starting from December 1, 2021.
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