A 4 day workweek has been trialed around the world with great success. Various studies show productivity improves as does employee-employer relations, employee mental health and customer satisfaction.

Scotland is currently trialing this with Wales likely to follow:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/country-trialling-fourday-working-week-with-no-salary-cut/news-story/9ff63c706ff83808bb9fb3e34fa6e3b0%3famp

Perpetual Guardian, a New Zealand estate planning firm, adopted a four-day workweek in 2018 following a successful trial in which productivity increased 20%, staff satisfaction increased, and staff stress levels decreased. The trial received worldwide attention.

This petition is not asking for 40 hours of work to be compressed into 4 days. That is counterproductive to what a 4 day workweek is able to achieve. Four 10 hour shifts are detrimental to an employees health.