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Working It is the FT's workplace podcast and newsletter, keeping you up to date on the post-pandemic trends shaking up workplaces worldwide.

Join host Isabel Berwick for new episodes of the award-winning podcast every Wednesday, with expert analysis and watercooler chat about ahead-of-the-curve workplace trends, the big ideas shaping work today — and the old habits we need to leave behind. FT subscribers can click here to subscribe to the Working It newsletter, with original reporting and round-ups of the best FT content on management, leadership and working life, delivered every Wednesday.

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    Four days' work for five days' pay: does it work?

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