When 61 UK companies cut the working week to four days with no cut in pay, the worry was probably output — but revenue stayed roughly flat, burnout fell for 71% of staff, and 56 of the 61 firms decided not to go back

Take a day off the working week, keep the pay the same, and surely the work falls off a cliff. Less time at the desk has to mean less done, right? That is the intuition almost everyone starts with, and it is perhaps the reason most companies never try. However, in 2022, sixty-one British companies [...] The post When 61 UK companies cut the working week to four days with no cut in pay, the worry was probably output — but revenue stayed roughly flat, burnout fell for 71% of staff, and 56 of the 6