The UK began working 4 days a week

Under the epidemic, more and more companies around the world began to implement a 4-day work week, and in the first 10 months of 2021 alone, according to the US Department of Labor, companies across the United States received nearly 39 million resignation letters, setting a new 20-year high for the "big resignation wave".

The UK has also confirmed that it will launch a six-month "4-day work week" trial in June 2022, in which participating workers will receive the same salary as the five-day work week. The goal of the study was to know if employees could complete 100% productive work in 80% of the time.

More than 30 companies in the UK have joined the "shift reduction without salary reduction" experiment. The trial was conducted by 4 Day Week Global, the think tank Autonomy and researchers from the University of Cambridge, Oxford and Boston College, and more than 30 companies will join the trial. In addition to this pilot study, Atom Bank, the uk's first virtual bank, has announced earlier that it will fully change to a new system of four-day work week without pay cuts, and it has continued to operate for a period of time.

Atom Bank of the United Kingdom changed to 4 days of work without pay reduction Atom also announced that it will reduce the number of working hours per week for employees from 37.5 hours to 34 hours, hoping that most employees will rest on Mondays or Fridays to ensure that employees can be physically and mentally healthy.

In fact, with the development of the new normal in the workplace, enterprises in different countries have introduced different measures to retain employees, and the UAE has become the first country in the world to take a two-and-a-half-day off (4-and-a-half-day) off week from 2022, and the national Friday noon is counted as the weekend, even for schools!