The Independent understands that officials from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) are keeping a close eye on the pilot programme and have already met the study's organisers to find out more. A group of civil servants from BEIS discussed the design of the project and how the policy of cutting working hours with no loss of pay would work in practice.
But the government has said it has "no plans" to introduce a four-day week nationally, and that adopting reduced working hours would be down to the "individual choice" of businesses and workers.
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