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SUMMARY:Results from the world’s largest trial of the 4-Day Week: imagin
 ing the future of work - Jon White\, Sociology
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CONTACT:Dr Stefanie Ullmann
DESCRIPTION:What happens when people elect to work four days a week with n
 o reduction in compensation? \n \nOver the last 18 months\, 61 UK companie
 s covering 2900 employees have been addressing that question by taking a r
 eduction in working hours as part of the world’s largest trial of the so
 -called 4-Day Week. In this seminar\, I present qualitative and quantitati
 ve results from that trial which were collected by a multi-national team t
 hat included Cambridge’s Department of Sociology. I outline both how the
  trial was conducted and how taking a reduction in working hours affected 
 work and home lives\, wellbeing\, life satisfaction and business continuit
 y. I also discuss policy implications of our study\, and how reduction in 
 working hours could be part of a package of reforms with wide reaching imp
 act in health\, public spending and beyond.  
LOCATION:Richard King room\, Darwin College
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