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Trial a four day working week

Submitted on Wednesday 28th April 2021

Rejected on Tuesday 4th May 2021

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

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Trial a four day working week

Petition Details

During the pandemic many businesses have adopted a 4-day week. Adopting a 4-day week would address the current mental health crisis by improving peoples work-life balance, whilst also increasing productivity and reducing business costs. This petition calls for a government trial of a four-day week.

Additional Information

17.9m working days a year are lost to poor mental health, costing employers £45bn. Work-related illness cases are highest amongst healthcare workers costing employers like the NHS, up to £2,174 per person.

78% report that moving to a four-day week has improved their happiness, with 64% of businesses reporting improved productivity.
Moving all public sector workers to 32-hour contracts, whilst maintaining current pay would only add 6% to the current salary budget, creating up to 500,000 jobs.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

It's not clear what a Government trial of a four-day working week would involve, but we have published the following petition, which you might like to sign:

Reduce the maximum working hours so people can do a four day week: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/566626

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