The four-day working week is back on the agenda. I've done it for years, here's what I learned | Vivienne Pearson

Recent pandemic-filled months have made us all realise just how un-set-in-stone our routines and assumptions are

There is an irrational sense that our five day, 38-ish hour a week work is chiselled in stone. Yet, “normal” working hours used to be 12 hours a day, six days a week. Happy we’re not still there? Work and life has changed so much, there is no reason why work hours should be ruled by labour reforms from the 1800s.

Thanks to a suggestion from Jacinda Ardern, the four-day working week is back on the agenda. And rightly so.

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