Thousands of people in the UK try to work 4 days a week

More than 3,000 people from about 70 companies in the UK have tried to work 4 days a week since the 6th to test whether this is beneficial to improve production efficiency and promote the physical and mental health of employees.

According to the British Broadcasting Corporation, during the half -year experiment, employees' working hours per week were only 80 %, but they would still receive 100 % remuneration. Scholars from the University of Oxford, Cambridge and Boston University in the United Kingdom will evaluate the results of the experiment.

On January 24, people work in a office building in the financial city of London, UK. Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Tim Ireland)

Participating in enterprises involving multiple industries, including software development, talent recruitment, charity, catering, etc. Nine employees of a brewery in northern London will complete 5 days of work in 4 days. Sam Smith, one of the founders of the Beer Frozen, said the epidemic caused people to re -think the relationship between work and life. He hopes that the 4 -day work can promote the physical and mental health of employees.

On December 26, 2021, people passed the discount information electronic screen of a store in Oxford Street, London, England. Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Ying

This experiment is part of a 4 -day work system project in the global research, which was initiated by the think tank organization engaged in workplace research in the UK. The project had previously conducted experiments in Ireland, the United States, Canada, and New Zealand, but the scale was not as large as the British experiment.

Juliet Scholes, an economist and sociologist who led the project in the project, said that corporate practice participating in the project worldwide proves that in many workplace, employees can use 80 with 80 Ur % of working hours complete 100 % work.

However, some researchers have a doubt about the 4 -day work system. Julian Jessopp, an economist at the British Institute of Economics, said that people must increase production efficiency by 25 % daily in order to complete the workload of 5 days in 4 days. Practitioners such as medical staff and teachers have a large workload daily, and it is difficult to increase the workload.

Source: Xinhua News Agency