KPMG, the professional services firm, asked staff to volunteer for a four-day week or take a sabbatical of up to 12 weeks on one-third of salary.

The company offered all staff a move to a four-day week to cut its wage bill.

该公司向所有员工提出一项举措，一周可以工作4天，以削减工资开支。

Twelve thousand workers will go onto a four-day week at their factory in Birmingham.

伯明翰工厂的12,000名工人将采取每周4天工作制。

Hundreds of students, professors and media professionals were at the four-day event last week.

成千上百的学生、教授和媒体人士参加了这一为期四天的活动。

The rationale for the four-day week system is to attend to the needs of the student clientele in balancing their study, work and family commitments.

实行4天周制度的根本原因是照顾学生的学习、工作和家庭三个方面的平衡。

At the four-day event this week, 13-year-old Arlian Ecker shared with the audience his experience trying to get other young people thinking about the problem of plastic waste.

在本周为期四天的活动中，13岁的尔连·艾克与参会者分享了他试图让其他年轻人思考塑料废物问题的经历。

A four-day school week sounds like a great idea for students and teachers.

每周上课四天对老师和学生来说似乎都是很好的主意。

Some schools, especially in rural areas, are changing to a four-day week. That means longer days instead of the traditional Monday through Friday schedule.

一些学校，尤其是乡村地区的学校开始向每周上课四天转变。这意味着不再按照过去周一到周五的时间表上课，而是每天需要上课更长时间。

They're demanding a four-day week.

他们在要求每星期工作四天。

In New Mexico, the first school district changed to a four-day week in nineteen seventy-four because of the Arab oil boycott.

在新墨西哥，由于阿拉伯石油抵制行动，第一个学区在1974年更改为每周上课四天。

The possibility of a four-day work week is now being seriously considered;

每周工作四天的可能性，现正受到慎重的考虑；

In May, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern suggested employers should consider the switch to a four-day week "if that's something that would work for your workplace."

去年五月，新西兰总理杰辛达·阿德恩建议，“如果行得通的话”，雇主应考虑改为每周四天工作制。

Production is down to 12 vehicles a day across a four-day week in the UK and is barely at break-even.

它在英国的日产量已降至12辆，每周生产4天，仅能勉强维持收支平衡。

Michael Grossman heads the district. He says two studies there failed to show any real educational improvement using the four-day week.

该学区的负责人Michael Grossman说，两项研究表明，每周上课四天对教育没有任何的改善。

Large corporations like Microsoft and Shake Shack have experimented with four-day workweeks in the past, but Spain's pilot program would be much larger in scale.

微软和Shake Shack汉堡这样的大公司过去曾尝试过四天工作制，但是西班牙的这一试点项目的规模要大得多。

Proponents of a four-day workweek argue that allowing more people to work fewer hours could go a long way in addressing the high unemployment rates that have plagued so many countries throughout the pandemic.

四天工作制的支持者声称，让更多人减少工作时间将十分有利于解决许多国家在疫情期间面对的高失业率问题。

Spain is about to find out firsthand whether it works.

西班牙即将亲自体验四天工作制能否奏效。

A growing number of smaller companies are adopting a four-day workweek.

越来越多中小公司开始采用四天工作制。

Spain is about to find out firsthand whether it works. The country is poised to become one of the first to experiment with a 32-hour workweek, which would allow workers to spend less time at the office without any change in pay.

西班牙即将亲自体验四天工作制能否奏效。该国准备成为率先试行32小时工作周的国家之一，在这种工作制下，员工上班时间减少了，但是工资却不变。

The computer is a typical labour-saving machine.

计算机是一种典型的节省劳动力的机器.

Yup, DVR-ing DWTS totally counts.

没错，看录像也可以算在内。