Gap Fill - 4-Day Work Week - Level 5

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Microsoft has trialed a four-day working in Japan. It saw in workers' productivity and job satisfaction. The took place at the tech giant's Tokyo . Employees had every Friday off as paid leave in August. Analysts monitored the of a three-day weekend on workers' . They found the shorter working week resulted in benefits. Productivity rose by 40 per cent and 92 per cent of workers expressed their with the trial. It could change Japan's workplace practices of long hours and overtime.

The trial was called the Work-Life Choice Challenge. It aimed, "to create an where each employee can choose a diverse and way of working according to the of their and life". It included shortening the length of meetings to a of 30 minutes and asking workers to chat online rather than face-to-face. In , Microsoft said electricity were down by 23 per cent and 59 per cent pages were printed compared with August 2018. Microsoft will repeat the experiment in Japan this year. It asked for employee .

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