What happened in 4 Day Work Week news this week?

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Written By Charlotte Lockhart - Founder

It’s been a busy week for the 4 day work week. Here are some headline stories you might have missed:

What happened in the world of work this week?

Flexible working and future of work news for this week

  1. AFAS Software in the Netherlands is set to trial a 4 day work week (32 hour week) starting January 2025. The entire team of 700 people will no longer work Fridays.

  2. Greece is to introduce a new law to allow employers to roster employees for six-day work weeks. Greece already has the longest average working hours in the EU, at 41 hours worked per week. This new law is set to increase that.

  3. 40,000 Australian government workers are set to engage in industrial action over 4 day work week row.

  4. The UK introduced a new flexible working law which benefits working parents. The law states that employers must accept employees’ requests to adopt flexible working hours to enable better work-life balance.

  5. Danish workers have been discovered to be wasting 22 work hours every week. With their average working week being 32.4 hours in length, this equates to two-thirds of their working hours.

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Charlotte Lockhart - Founder

Founder and Managing Director 4 Day Week Global

Charlotte Lockhart is a business advocate, investor and philanthropist with more than 25 years’ experience in multiple industries locally and overseas.

As founder and managing director for the 4 Day Week Global campaign she works promoting internationally the benefits of a productivity-focused and reduced-hour workplace. Through this, she is on the board of the Wellbeing Research Centre at Oxford University and the advisory boards of the US campaign and the Ireland campaign for the 4 Day Week.

Since a diagnosis with Stage 4 breast cancer, Charlotte has become very focused on changing the way we work today to a better, more inclusive experience for everyone.

https://www.4dayweek.com/charlotte-lockhart
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