For a six month period starting in June 2022, 61 UK companies reduced their employees working hours by 20 per cent, with no changes made to their salary.
A bank which has moved to a four day working week - with no loss of salary - says it supports employees who want to get an extra job elsewhere on the fifth day.
A hundred British businesses have signed up for a permanent four-day working week for all their employees - with no loss of pay. Now, roughly 2,600 employees are set to benefit.
Peter Dowd, the MP for Bootle, made the proposition to introduce a four-day week and said British workers currently clock up the longest hours in Europe.