Wellbeing | Four-day week arrives in UK as Scotland rolls out £10m trial

Increasingly, businesses and even several nations have been experimenting with four-day working weeks in a bid to boost productivity and workplace wellbeing.

And now, the concept has reached the UK, with a report confirming that the Scottish Government will roll out its own trial of fewer working days – without a reduction in pay – in a pilot ministers say could help sustain jobs and enhance the wellbeing of its citizens.

As was reported by The Scotsman, pilots are being staged in response to the coronavirus pandemic, with the SNP having pledged £10million funding for companies which take part in the trials.

The plans appear to be widely backed by Scottish citizens, with research for think tank IPPR Scotland finding that 80% of people believed that reducing the number of working days, without a reduction in pay, would have a “positive effect on their wellbeing”, according to The Scotsman.