Labour MPs call for four-day week as part of workers’ rights package More than a dozen MPs have called for a four-day working week to be considered by ministers as part of a new set of workers rights rules.
Joe Ryle, campaign director of the 4 Day Week Foundation, said: “Compressing the same amount of hours into four days rather than five is not the same thing as a true four-day working week.
The majority of the companies said their employees work 32 hours a week or less over the course of a week.
Peter Dowd, the Labour MP who put forward the amendment, said that with things like artificial intelligence enabling people to work more efficiently, the benefits “must be passed back to workers”.
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-19 pandemic.
