Hand Picked Hotels introduces four-day working week benefit

Hand Picked Hotels have been the latest hospitality company to embrace flexible working with plans to introduce four-day working weeks for their chefs, thecaterer.com reports.

The privately-owned company of 20 country house hotels say that they have employed the initiative “to support a greater work-life balance for kitchen teams and attract more skilled professionals to the industry”.

The move is driven by the group’s new Director of Food and Beverage, Graeme Nesbitt, as part of a wider series of recruitment and retention programmes.

“The hotel and hospitality industry has long been vocal about the growing shortage of skilled, trained chefs and the gap is widening,"