The world's biggest 4 day week trial kicks off and could domino to SA - Campaign director, Joe Ryle

The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the way that people work overnight with many workers keen to continue with working from home. It has also prompted a new look at the five-day work week and whether we can be as productive in a four-day week. In the world’s biggest trial, 70 UK companies have started experimenting with a 32-hour week and they are being monitored by the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Boston College in the US to see whether productivity can be maintained in shorter hours. The Campaign Director of the 4 Day Week pilot is Joe Ryle, who told BizNews.com that working five days or for 40 hours a week is a very outdated model of work that hails from the 1930s and is causing stress and burnout. Ryle hopes that the campaign will have a domino effect and travel across the world to countries like South Africa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices