Four-Day Week Trial: Study – One Year On

A follow-up report on the four-day working week by Autonomy, Making It Stick: The UK Four Day Week Pilot One Year On, has found that 89% of the 61 organisations that took part in the trial in 2022 have continued with the policy and 51% (31 organisations) have made the policy permanent.

Almost half of those that took part in the trial (28 organisations) took part in this study. It found that the benefits of a four-day working week have been sustained following the end of the trial:

• 82% of organisations reported positive impacts on staff well-being
• 50% saw positive effects on reducing staff turnover and 32% said the policy had noticeably improved recruitment
• 100% of managers and CEOs said the policy had a "positive" or "very positive" impact on their organisation