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Companies pilot four-day work week in U.K.

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A new pilot program in the United Kingdom is asking 3,300 workers, across a number of industries, to work four-day work weeks instead of five. The workers are being paid the same amount and are expected to be as productive as they would be working five days a week.

Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd speaks with Juliet Schor, professor of Boston College and lead researcher for the four-day work week pilot.

This segment aired on July 19, 2022.

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