Recruiter moves to four day week
Specialist search firm Charlton Morris is introducing a four-day week for all employees this month.
The move follows a six-month trial to understand the effects of the shorter week, where employees retain consistent hours and pay.
The move means the firm is one of the first in the UK recruitment space to officially implement the benefit for all current and future employees as part of their wider package.
Charlton Morris associate director of people, Rebecca Cook, said: “The past 18 months has given us time to reflect on how we can become the company we want to be. Alongside our newly refreshed vision ‘to change the way the world sees recruitment, through offering our people and our customers the best possible experience,’ we are adjusting our focus to what keeps our people motivated. By encouraging a healthy work/life balance with the security of the same career opportunities.”
When exploring the reality of implementing the four-day week, Charlton Morris reached out to their staggering 270,000+ LinkedIn Audience to see how industry professionals responded to the suggestion. The results showed an overwhelming 83% in support of the decision. With The Wall Street Journal highlighting the most productive workday as a Thursday, “at Charlton Morris, we’re building search firms that offer so much more than ‘just’ recruitment” said CEO Andy Shatwell.
Charlton Morris is a search firm with three divisions, CM Medical, CM Life Science and CM Industrial. Since being founded in 2013 in Leeds they are now expanding into Manchester and London.
