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An employer that was among the first to trial a four-day working week has shared some key lessons and tips from its journey.

When recruitment company Beaumont People launched a four-day week pilot very early in 2020, it was one of the first recruitment companies to do so.

It paused the trial briefly when the pandemic hit, then relaunched it and has continued working this way since.

According to managing director Nina Mapson Bone, the company's success so far results from taking a highly structured approach; the agency spent six months "brainstorming everything that could go wrong" then trying to engineer solutions in advance...