Ms Maeve McElwee:

It is probably a much bigger question, with respect to the Deputy, than the issue around how we might trial or implement a four-day work week. Clearly, we have seen very significant advances in productivity and how people work, much of which has been augmented by industrialisation, technology and new and more efficient ways of working. Without a doubt, we have seen very significant changes in how people work. We hear back from member companies and what their employees are telling them is what they are looking for in terms of their work-life balance is around additional flexibility. It is the ability, quite rightly, to disconnect when their working day is done, to be able to flex around childcare and education, and perhaps to be able to take time out of the working day or the working year to pursue other interests, rather than one single model. Therefore, when we are looking at this particular question, we are looking at what are the best opportunities and what sustains our economy into the long term. We are looking at how we can continue to operate successfully and ensure we sustain and maintain employment and employment growth, but it has to be in that wider lens of a strong stakeholder model.