Four-day week on transportation, heating, and substitute teachers. More modest attempts to enact a 32-hour workweek (a four-day week and an eight-hour day combined) have remained elusive in the following 80 years despite pockets of residual support. In Gambia, a four-day workweek was introduced for public officials by president Yahya Jammeh, effective as of 1 February 2013. Working hours became Mondays through Thursday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., with Friday foreseen as a day of rest to allow residents more time for prayer and agriculture. This regulation was abolished in early 2017 by his successor, president Adama Barrow, who decreed a half-day
Four-day week company’s 240-plus staff nominating and receiving a day off each week at full pay. The six week trial, held during March and April 2018, attracted international media attention In late March 2018, Barnes noted that the trial was going well with staff reporting more time for family, hobbies, ploughing through to-do lists and doing home maintenance. The trial, which was tracked and assessed by the University of Auckland Business School and Auckland University of Technology, proved to be a resounding success and ‘a total win-win’, with Perpetual Guardian extending the four-day work week scheme permanently. The trial saw a 20%