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Four-Day Working Weeks Have Strings Attached

- The writer is Chief Executive Officer with the Australian Institute of Management WA

MOST OF US will relate to being asked to take on extra work to help out from time to time - though we would find it hard to imagine getting an extra day’s paid leave each week.

Yet this is exactly what is happening in Britain, where what is being touted as the world’s largest trial of

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