About Us
The 4 Day Week Foundation lead the UK's national campaign for a four-day working week. We are campaigning across the UK for a four-day, 32 hour working week with no loss of pay for workers.
We encourage and support organisations and workers of all kinds to transition to a four-day week through workshops, mentoring and networking.
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Why do we believe in a 4 Day Week? Find Out Here
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We are a not-for-profit organisation, registered on Companies House under the trading name 4 Day Week Foundation LTD.
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To get involved, please sign up to our mailing list below.
STAFF
Joe Ryle - Campaign Director
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Joe leads the 4 Day Week Foundation team. He is also author of The 4 Day Week Handbook and a former Labour Party Press Officer.
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joe [@] 4dayweek.co.uk
James Reeves - Campaign Manager
James joined the 4 Day Week Foundation in February 2025 after six years campaigning for education reform. For James, the four-day week is a radical way to rethink and redesign society to prioritise our health, wellbeing and relationships.
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james [@] 4dayweek.co.uk
Phil Lindsey - Head of Organising and Social Media
Phil is a trade unionist and education worker, with a background in writing for radio (The Skewer, BBC Radio 4) and the stage. He’s excited for a 4-day week because of its potential as a catalyst for change, and because it’s the only way he’s ever going to have enough time to finish Elden Ring.
phil [@] 4dayweek.co.uk
Sam Hunt - Head of Business Relations
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Sam sees the four-day week as a unique opportunity to rejuvenate the United Kingdom. A life more productive and innovative, yet also flexible and natural. He has worked on media strategy for the city-state Neom as well as for financial software company Bloomberg LP as an analyst.
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sam [@] 4dayweek.co.uk
Advisory Group
Sam Smith - Co-Founder of Pressure Drop Brewing
Sam is a co-founder and director of Pressure Drop Brewing. He has been a regular advocate for the four-day week in the brewing industry and beyond since successfully implementing the four-day week for his company in 2022.
James Cockett - Senior Labour Market Economist at CIPD
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James leads on labour market analysis at CIPD - the professional body for HR who have a charitable mission of better work and better working lives. James is interested in many aspects of the world of work, including low pay, equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) and flexible working.
Maya Ellis - Labour MP for Ribble Valley
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Maya Ellis became the Labour MP for Ribble Valley in 2024. She is passionate about a four-day week and in her Maiden Speech said that she hopes "that we will move to a standard four-day working week in my lifetime".
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Brendan Burchell - University of Cambridge
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Professor Burchell’s research interests centre on the effects of labour market conditions on wellbeing. He has published widely in the academic literature and his work has been featured extensively in the media. He has been Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge and President of Magdalene College, Cambridge.
Graham Griffiths - Assistant Director at the Living Wage Foundation
Graham is the Assistant Director at the Living Wage Foundation, overseeing the outreach, accreditation and engagement with responsible employers to secure pay rises for low paid workers.
Heejung Chung - Professor of Work and Employment at King's Business School
Heejung is Professor of Work and Employment, and the Director of the King’s Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at King’s College London. She has carried out work around work and gender cultures, labour market inequalities exploring efficacies of policies for over two decades. She believes the current work model is outdated and the four day week is a solution to acknowledge the new modern day workers and the varieties of responsibilities they carry outside of work..
Board of Directors
Aidan Harper
Aidan is a founding member of the 4 Day Week Foundation. He is a trade union organiser at Unite the Union.
Sylvie Craig
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Sylvie has been involved with the 4 Day Week Foundation since 2018. She currently works as a researcher for the Service Employees International Union, Local 32BJ, where she supports a campaign to organise building service workers in New Jersey, USA.
Rebecca Cobb
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Rebecca leads on communications, membership engagement and delivering social impact at Timebanking UK - the only national organisation promoting time and skill exchanges in communities across the UK. With 25 years of experience in the not-for-profit sector, she has worked across students' unions, women's representation, and nationwide campaigns that drive citizen engagement and positive social impact.
Anna Diski
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Anna joined the 4 Day Week Foundation in 2020, initially focussing on the environmental case for a shorter working week before joining the board of directors in 2022. Anna works as a campaigner at Greenpeace UK.