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The initiative marks the second phase of the 4 Day Week Campaign, with the latest participants including the Hackney-based Crate brewery and the British Society for Immunology (BSI).
The study was released Wednesday by Autonomy, a think tank that ran the 2022 trial with nonprofit 4 Day Week Global and the 4 Day Week UK Campaign in partnership with researchers from Cambridge ...
The following year was the RAF's turn and Wings for Victory Week was launched in March 1943. [5] Building on the success of the earlier campaigns, a large military event was held at Trafalgar Square in London in March 1944 to raise money for field hospitals and other military equipment under the new Salute the Soldier campaign. [7]
The five-day workweek is a cultural norm; the result of early 1900s union advocacy to reduce the six-day workweek, which led to the invention of the weekend.In the early 20th century, when the average work week in developed nations was reduced from around 60 to 40 hours, it was expected that further decreases would occur over time.
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A large military event was held at Trafalgar Square in London in March 1943 to raise money for the Wings for Victory campaign. [4] The amount realised in the weeks specifically designated Wings for Victory Weeks was £615,946,000, [5] equivalent to about £33.6 billion in 2023. [6]
Ahead of July’s election, the 4 Day Week Campaign called on political parties to back a reduction of the maximum working week from 48 hours to 32 by the end of the decade, with no loss of pay.
On the night of 3–4 February 1973, British Army snipers shot dead four unarmed men (one of whom was an IRA member) in the Catholic New Lodge area of Belfast. [ 68 ] In the early hours of 31 July 1972, the British Army launched Operation Motorman to re-take Northern Ireland's " no-go areas ", mostly Catholic neighbourhoods that had been ...