The trial has begun on International Workers' Day
A new four-day week pilot programme is underway in Ireland today.
Recruitment has begun on International Workers' Day for the initiative where workers get 100 per cent of their pay for 80 per cent of the time.
This is in exchange for a commitment to deliver 100 per cent of the output.
The Four Day Week Ireland campaign says last year, 12 Irish firms completed it with none returning to five days post-trial.
Four Day Week Ireland is a campaign advocating for a gradual, steady, managed transition to a shorter working week for all workers, in the private and public sectors.
Margaret Cox is the director of recruitment firm ICE Group, the first Irish company to fully implement the four-day working week.
In 2019, along with her colleague Felim McDonnell, she wrote a book about the four-day week and their experiences in introducing it, 'The 3-Day Weekend'.
She told BreakingNews, "It's a very simple process, a simple formula, it's 100 per cent productivity... four days work and five days pay. The whole idea is a shift towards managing how you do your business about time and output, that's what it is,"
"It has been a huge success, when you introduce something that makes such a huge difference to people it's great, we were the first in Ireland and people thought we were mad."
