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The companies range from marketing agencies, IT firms and consultancies to those in the charity sector, and collectively employ more than 5, people.
Joe Ryle, campaign director of the 4 Day Week Foundation, said the five-day working week was 'invented years ago and is no longer fit for purpose'. Instead, his organisation is pushing for a four-day week with the same pay and benefits as those working five out of every seven days. The latest landmark signals growing popularity for less onerous working patterns at a time when large corporations are forcing their employees to return to the office full-time.
US investment bank JP Morgan and tech giant Amazon have demanded staff come back to the office every day despite having allowed hybrid working patterns for the last five years since the Covid pandemic. Marketing and press relations firms made up 30 of the companies adopting the policy, while charities, non-governmental organisations and social care companies accounted for They were followed by 24 in technology, IT and software, while 22 companies in the business, consulting and management sector have also offered four-day weeks to their workers.
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