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Four-day work week could come to the UK this year to help boost the economy

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coronavirus pandemic. Labour MPs John McDonnell and Caroline Lucas are among those who have written to Chancellor Rishi Sunak urging the Government to reduce the number of workdays from five to four – while paying Brits the same.It's an increasingly popular idea around the world as reduced hours are believed to provide greater opportunities for the unemployed as well as increasing productivity for the workforce."A four-day week would give many more opportunities to the growing list of unemployed people which already stands at 2.8 million people," the letter to the Treasury reads."Shorter working time has been used throughout history as a way of responding to economic crises."They were used as a way of reducing unemployment during the Great.

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