The Wellcome Trust, a biomedical research charity based in the UK, announced earlier this year it was considering moving all staff to a shorter working week. “Like many organisations, Wellcome is continually looking at how we can increase the impact we make towards our charitable mission and improve staff wellbeing,” Ed Whiting, Wellcome’s director of policy and chief of staff, said in a statement.
“Moving to a four-day week is one of a number of very early ideas that we are looking at that might be beneficial to welfare and productivity for everyone at Wellcome.”
