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2. Four days' work for five days' pay: what employees have to say
Season 1 · Episode 59

2. Four days' work for five days' pay: what employees have to say

Meet the employees taking part in a UK trial of the four-day working week

Working It · Mischa Frankl-Duval

December 6, 202217m 42s

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Show Notes

It’s billed as the biggest overhaul of the working week since the carmaker Henry Ford introduced the five-day week in his factories, almost a century ago. A number of UK companies have signed up to trial a four-day week, with no loss in pay for employees. In the second episode of this four-part series about the trial, host Isabel Berwick hears from the FT’s Emma Jacobs who’s been speaking to employees involved, reporting on their concerns about maintaining productivity and time management.


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Presented by Isabel Berwick. Editorial direction from Manuela Saragosa. Produced by Novel.


Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com



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