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As an increasing number of organisations trial and adopt four-day working weeks, there are clear signs employers should take a staged approach, and that failing to tailor their offering is "a pathway to disaster".

James McIlvena, the managing director of LHH Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, says a new LHH report on four-day work weeks, which includes its own research along with findings from a pilot that involved 26 Australian companies, shows trials are achieving a surprising level of success.

Among the employees who participated in the 26-company pilot – which was run by 4 Day Week Global and used the model of 100% pay, 80% time, 100% productivity to reduce working hours from 40 to 32 – 96% wanted to continue working a four-day week at its conclusion...