Could a 4 Day Week Work in Your Sector? Yes!

At Happy we are engaged in the UK four-day working week pilot, with 70 UK companies testing the idea from June to November 2022.

We’ve had huge interest, with my blogs on LinkedIn getting up to 10 times as many views as my other posts. But some respond by saying that it wouldn’t work in their sector.

So I was very interested to read the book Shorter: How Smart Companies Work Less, Embrace Flexibility and Boost Productivity by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang. This gives a whole range of examples from different sectors.

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