Ninety Percent of UK Companies Testing Four-Day Workweek Plan to Stick With It: Report

A woman using a laptop on a dining room table set up as a remote office to work from home, in the United Kingdom, on Mar. 3, 2020. Joe Giddens/PA

A large majority of companies in the United Kingdom that took part in a test of a four-day workweek plan to continue to keep the arrangement, citing increased productivity and business performance.

A total of 61 companies and approximately 2,900 workers took part in the trial of a reduced workweek over six months from June to December 2022.