'Bold new future' | Will the UK's four-day week trial improve wellbeing and SLASH burnout?

A six-month trial period of a four-day working week has been launched across the UK, in a bid to improve employee wellbeing and productivity.

As reported by the Metro, around 30 British companies are taking part in the pilot scheme, which will see staff earn the same pay while working one day less per week. Workers will only be required to maintain the same productivity levels expected of them from a five-day week.

The pilot is being conducted by the ‘4 Day Week Global’ group, alongside think tank Autonomy, the 4 Day Week UK Campaign and researchers at Cambridge University, Oxford University and Boston College.

Joe O’Connor, Pilot Programme Manager for 4 Day Week Global, said: “More and more businesses are moving to productivity focused strategies to enable them to reduce worker hours without reducing pay.