Four-day week needed to reduce stress, says top doctor

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Reducing the working week to four days would help to combat work-related stress and the mental ill-health associated with overwork or lack of work, one of Britain's leading doctors says.

Speaking to the Guardian, the UK Faculty of Health president professor John Ashton said switching from a working week of five days to four would help reduce unemployment, allow people to spend more...

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