pilot are revealed, a similar experiment by Microsoft Japan in 2019 resulted in a 40% increase in productivity. While it will be at least six months before final results from the U.K. 'We'll be analyzing how employees respond to having an extra day off, in terms of stress and burnout, job and life satisfaction, health, sleep, energy use, travel and many other aspects of life,' Juliet Schor, professor of sociology at Boston College, said in a statement.

pilot gets underway, productivity is one area researchers will focus on. Researchers will measure any changes in productivityДЄs the large U.K. They come to work liking their job a bit more and wanting to kind of get the work done so that they can have a nice weekend and so on.' And so reducing the working week has reaped dividends in terms of productivity and worker well-being, which means they come to work refreshed. 'We can't concentrate all the time, particularly if you're overworked and you have burnout. 'For many organizations, what you lose in labor time, you gain in greater productivity on the job,' he said. Stronge has argued that a shorter workweek would be better for people's mental health and could even increase productivity. '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, CEO of 4 Day Week Global, said in a statement.ДЄFP via Getty Images If people were given an extra day off, Stronge said many say they would take care of personal tasks or spend more time with family and friends.

In exchange for fewer hours, workers commit to maintaining the productivity they would in a five-day workweek.Д¬alls for a 32-hour workweek have increased, especially as many people around the world are facing burnout from the pandemic. Workers make the same amount of money they would for a 40-hour workweek, but they only work 80% of the time. It's being put on by 4 Day Week Global, the 4 Day Week Campaign, the U.K.-based think tank Autonomy, and researchers at Cambridge University, Oxford University and Boston College. The experiment includes more than 3,300 people across 70 companies in industries ranging from health care to local fish and chip shops. will be working 32 hours a week in the largest four-day workweek pilot the world has ever seen. For the next six months, thousands of people across the U.K.

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