{"id":76522,"date":"2025-08-18T03:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T03:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/76522\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T03:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T03:45:13","slug":"a-four-day-workweek-has-been-abandoned-by-bupa-and-unilever-embraced-by-inventium-and-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/76522\/","title":{"rendered":"A four-day workweek has been abandoned by Bupa and Unilever, embraced by Inventium and Equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia is lagging behind many countries in adopting a four-day workweek despite research showing that giving employees a shorter week at full pay can boost job satisfaction, improve mental and physical health, and reduce burnout.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium became the first European country to legislate a four-day workweek in 2022, while more than 200 companies in the UK, most of them charities, marketing and technology firms, have since done the same according to the UK-based 4 Day Week Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia is lagging behind many countries in adopting a four-day workweek despite research showing that giving employees a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[64,63,99,180],"class_list":{"0":"post-76522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-jobs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}