Is a four-day week on its way? Britons could move to shorter working pattern after Covid pandemic, says workplace tsar Peter Cheese said there was a 'generational opportunity' to change work patterns after millions spent months setting up office at home Flexible working 'can and should' be as acceptable as a five-day working week, the chairman of the government's Flexible Working Taskforce said The Government is committed to a 'default' right to flexible working, Cheese said
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Britain could gradually move to a four-day working week following the pandemic, an official adviser on the future of the workplace said yesterday.
Peter Cheese, chairman of the government's Flexible Working Taskforce, said there was a 'generational opportunity' to change traditional working patterns after months of setting up office at home.
Mr Cheese said so-called flexible working 'can and should be seen as just as much an acceptable way of working as a more standard five-day working week'.
He said flexible working, which can include working at home, would come to be seen as 'a norm, not an exception'.
He told the