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APilot programmes testing a four-day working week, with no reduction in pay, have expanded well beyond the small handful of companies that first experimented with the idea, as organisers of these trials report productivity holding steady or even improving despite the shorter working time.
BProponents argue that compressing the same output into fewer days forces organisations to eliminate genuinely unnecessary meetings and low-value tasks that had simply accumulated over years, a form of enforced efficiency that might never have happened voluntarily under a standard five-day structure.
CSceptics counter that early results may partly reflect selection bias, since companies willing to volunteer for such a trial in the first place are often already well-managed and motivated, making it difficult to know whether the same gains would appear across a less willing, more typical workforce.
DEven among supporters, there is no consensus on which roles suit the model best; some client-facing or shift-based jobs have proven far harder to compress than office-based roles, suggesting the four-day week may end up as a partial rather than universal shift in working patterns.