This week has marked the start of a six-month UK trial of a four-day working week. Employees at around 70 businesses will receive 100% of their usual pay in return for just 80% of their usual hours. This concept is (of course!) hugely popular with the general public, and has been lapped up in the media. But some healthy scepticism is needed.
To be clear, I think the four-day week trials are a ‘good thing’. Employers should always be open to different ways of working, and these trials may help to identify the types of business where this model is more realistic.
I am a little wary here, partly because the participating businesses are self-selecting. The study is also being run by two campaign groups set up to lobby for a four-day week, with support from a consultancy that promotes a four-day week, and an academic panel dominated by sociologists…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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