More than 3300 workers at 70 companies in the UK are at the beginning of a four-day working week trial that will run for six months. The four-day week does have its detractors, with critics questioning how they'd be able to do all their work in a condensed four-day week period. Many of the criticism today levelled at the four-day week was also used to challenge the concept of the five-day working week when it was introduced by Ford. In response to the growing issue of burnout, tech companies in the US have experimented with adopting a four-day week. This, explains Barnes, is a four-day week myth that can't work practically in a world driven by the demands of customers.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 13, 2022 21:03 UTC