A significant cultural shift is underway in the British workplace, with a landmark total of 253 companies now officially operating a four-day working week while maintaining full employee pay. This represents a substantial 27% increase from the previous year, following the addition of 53 new firms to the accredited list in 2024.
A Growing Movement for Shorter Working Weeks
The 4 Day Week Foundation, the organisation behind the accreditation scheme, reports that this policy now benefits more than 6,000 workers across the United Kingdom. The movement spans a remarkably diverse range of sectors, demonstrating its applicability far beyond any single industry.
Joe Ryle, Campaign Director for the 4 Day Week Foundation, stated: "These companies are proving that there is nothing stopping organisations in the UK from moving to a four-day week. Across virtually every sector and region, employers are showing that shorter working weeks boost productivity, improve wellbeing and help attract and retain talent – all without cutting pay."
Evidence of Success Across Industries
Ryle emphasised that the debate has moved on from questioning the viability of the model. "The question is no longer whether it works, but how quickly others will follow," he added. The comprehensive list of accredited employers includes businesses from finance and banking, such as Atom Bank, to creative agencies, manufacturing firms, charities, and technology startups.
The model appears to be delivering on its promises, with participating companies reporting tangible benefits. These include enhanced staff morale, reduced burnout, and often, counterintuitively, maintained or even increased levels of output and service quality.
The Full List of Accredited Four-Day Week Employers
The following is the complete roster of 253 UK companies currently offering a four-day week to all staff on full pay, as accredited by the 4 Day Week Foundation:
- 3D Issue — Digital
- 448 Studio — Media
- 5 Squirrels Ltd — Manufacturing
- 64 Million Artists — Creative Industries
- 92 Minutes Ltd — Consultancy
- Accurise — Accountancy
- Acuity Solutions — Consultancy
- Advantage Business Partnerships — Professional Services
- Advice Cloud — Consultancy
- Advice Direct Scotland — Charity
- Agile Communication Agency — Marketing
- Agricultural Recruitment Specialists — Recruitment
- AKA Case Management — Healthcare
- Alliance Publishing Trust — Charity
- Almond Financial — Finance
- Amity Community Action — NGO
- Andy Matthews Studio — Architect
- Arts Marketing Association — Arts & Entertainment
- Ascendancy — Digital
- Atlas Translations — Travel
- Atom Bank — Banking
- Autonomy — NGO
- Awin — Marketing
- AWO — Law
- Awscape — Architect
- Baker Consultants — Consultancy
- Barefoot Architects — Architect
- Barking and Dagenham Giving — Charity
- Bedrock Learning — Education
- BiBO — Architect
- Big Potato Games — Gaming
- Bimble Solar — Energy
- BJP Consulting Group Ltd — Consulting
- Blink — Marketing
- Bookishly — Retail
- Boxfish — Consultancy
- BrandPipe — Technology
- Breaks — Creative Industries
- Brett Nicholls Associates — Accountancy
- British Ecological Society — NGO
- British Society for Rheumatology — Charity
- Brook — Charity
- Butcher Bayley Architects — Architect
- Cairn Ecology — Consultancy
- Camlas — Public Affairs
- Camloc Motion Control — Manufacturing
- Causeway Irish Housing Association — Housing
- Centre for Local Economic Strategies — NGO
- Centre for Thriving Places Ltd — Consultancy
- Charity Bank — Finance
- Citizens Advice Gateshead — Charity
- City to Sea — NGO
- CIVO — Digital
- Climate Policy Radar — NGO
- CMD: Studio (Villainous Games Studio) — Gaming
- CMG Technologies — Manufacturing
- Cobry — Technology
- Coltech Global — Technology
- Common Knowledge — Digital
- Concrete Youth — Arts & Entertainment
- Cooked Illustrations — Media
- Counting King Limited — Consultancy
- CRASH Services — Professional Services
- Creatio — Technology
- Crystallised — Marketing
- Custom Heat — Construction
- Cyber and Fraud Centre Scotland — IT/Software
- Dash Accounting Services — Accountancy
- DataLase — Technology
- DigiLab — Marketing
- Digital Guerilla Consultancy — Construction
- Earth Science Partnership — Engineering
- Earthly — Consultancy
- East Marsh United — NGO
- Edith Garland Architecture — Architect
- Elektra Lighting — Design
- Element Four — Consultancy
- Elliott & Company Consulting Engineers Ltd — Engineering
- Energiesprong UK — Housing
- Epic HR — Professional Services
- Escape the City — Recruitment
- Escentral — Consultancy
- ESG Gaming — Gaming
- Esteem Training — Construction
- Everyday — Arts & Entertainment
- Evolved Search — Marketing
- Flocc — Marketing
- FMC Global Talent — Recruitment
- Formedix — Technology
- Fortem People LTD — Recruitment
- ForthStar — Gaming
- Forward Carers — Healthcare
- Forward Space — Design
- Four Day Week Ltd — Recruitment
- Furness Insurance Services — Insurance
- Future Economy Scotland — NGO
- Future Projects — Charity
- Geeks for Social Change — IT
- Giant Digital — Consultancy
- Girling Jones — Recruitment
- Global Partners Digital — Digital
- Good Ancestor Movment — Finance
- Gracefruit — Retail
- Greenpost — Recruitment
- Ground And Project Consultants Ltd — Engineering
- Gungho Marketing — Marketing
- Happy — Learning
- Hello Heat Pumps — Housing
- Hello Starling — Advertising
- Highfield Professional Solutions — Engineering
- Highgate IT Solutions — IT/Software
- House of Hackney — Retail
- Hutch Games Ltd — Gaming
- Ideal Extraction — Engineering
- IG-HR — Consulting
- IMD Solicitors — Legal
- Independent Food Aid Network — Charity
- Infigo — IT/Software
- Intercultural Youth Scotland — NGO
- Interlink — Technology
- Jerba Campavans — Manufacturing
- JMK Solicitors — Legal
- Kairos Women+ — Charity
- Kinfolk Network — Not for profit
- LEaF Translations — Professional Services
- Legacy Events — Events
- Lemongrass Marketing — Marketing
- LIT Communication — Marketing
- Literal Humans — Marketing
- London Funders — NGO
- Loud Mouth Media — Marketing
- LoveGunn — Design
- LUX – The Food & Drink Agency — Advertising
- Madeby.studio — Technology
- Maggie Chapman MSP — Politics
- Marketing Signals — Marketing
- MATS Consultancy — Professional Services
- Matthew Edwards & Co — Accountancy
- Mavin Powercube — Technology
- Melville Housing Association — Housing
- Mental Health Foundation — Charity
- Merthyr Valleys Homes — Housing
- Middle Child Theatre — Creative Industries
- Middleton Co-operating — NGO
- Mox — Advertising
- MRL Consulting — Recruitment
- MSDS Marine & MSDS Heritage — Heritage
- Muckle Media — Public Affairs
- Mutual — Technology
- MycoPunks — Retail
- Native Ecology — Consulting
- NEON (New Economy Organisers Network) — NGO
- Neonhive — Gaming
- New Economics Foundation — NGO
- New Vision Digital Marketing — Digital
- Noteworthy Support — IT/Software
- Opportunity Green — Charity
- Oriel Square — Education
- Original Consultants — Technology
- Ormiston Wire Ltd — Manufacturing
- Pale Fox Esports — Sport
- Paul David Smith Photography — Creative Industries
- Paul Morgan & Associates Wealth Management Ltd. — Finance
- Peak PEO — Accountancy
- People — Events
- Planning Aid Scotland — Charity
- Plaudit Agency — Marketing
- Pollard Media — Marketing
- Pool Data — Technology
- Portcullis Legals — Legal
- Poteris — Technology
- PR Dispatch — Public Relations
- Pressure Drop — Brewery
- Principles Agency — Marketing
- Professional Writing Academy — Education
- PTHR — Design
- Punch Creative — Marketing
- PureFluent — Marketing
- Quality of Life Foundation — Charity
- Queercircle — Arts & Entertainment
- Reboot — Marketing
- Red Giraffe — Marketing
- Resilience Brokers — NGO
- Reward Agency — Marketing
- Richard John Andrews Ltd — Architect
- Rise — Charity
- Safer Fostering — Charity
- Schuco — Healthcare
- Scotland’s International Development Alliance — Charity
- Scottish Green Party — Politics
- SDX Messaging — Consultancy
- Sensat — Construction
- SEOMG! — Technology
- Shout Loud Social — Marketing
- Sidequest Ltd — Gaming
- Sinister Fish Games — Gaming
- Social Enterprise Direct — Professional Services
- Social For Good — Marketing
- Softer Success — Consultancy
- Sounds Like These — Creative Industries
- Split Banana — Charity
- SQS — Energy
- Stagecast — Media
- STC Expeditions — Travel
- STOP AIDS — Charity
- streamGO — Events
- Studio Cotton — Design
- Synergy Vision — Marketing
- T-Cup — Consultancy
- Tai Pawb — Housing
- Tailored Thinking — HR
- Talewind — Gaming
- Target Composites Ltd — Manufacturing
- Target Publishing — Media
- TBL Services — Consultancy
- Team Custard Kraken — Gaming
- Teampoint — Software
- Technovent — Manufacturing
- The Beacon — PR
- The Circle — Charity
- Think Productive — Consultancy
- This Is Beyond — Events
- THRYVE — Recruitment
- Time Appointments — Recruitment
- Tribera — Digital
- Trigger — Creative Industries
- Tyler Grange Group Ltd — Consultancy
- Unify Learning & Development — Education
- Uniqodo — Technology
- UPAC Group — Manufacturing
- Vault City Brewing — Manufacturing
- Venture Stream — Marketing
- VerriBerri — Marketing
- Vetro Recruitment — Recruitment
- Waterwise — NGO
- We Are Purposeful — NGO
- WeBuyVintage — Retail
- Welcome to the Jungle — Recruitment
- Wellbeing Economy Alliance — NGO
- Whering — Digital
- Whyfield — Accountancy
- Wolf & Moon — Retail
- Women’s Budget Group — NGO
- Woven Ink Studio Limited — Creative Industries
- Xaso — Marketing
- Ynni Sir Gâr — Community Energy
- You HR Consultancy — Consultancy
- YWCA Scotland — Charity
- Zetteler — Design
- Zync Digital — Marketing
The Future of Work in Britain
This expanding roster signals a potential permanent change in the UK's employment landscape. The model challenges traditional notions of productivity being tied directly to hours spent at a desk, instead focusing on output and employee welfare. As more companies report positive outcomes from the trial, pressure may grow on other businesses and policymakers to consider how flexible working arrangements can be integrated into the modern economy.
The diversity of the list—from small creative studios to established financial institutions—suggests that the four-day week is not a niche policy but a viable option for a broad spectrum of the UK business community.
