8 hour day and 5 day working week
Seebohm Rowntree became the company’s first director of labour and developed his father’s belief that improved worker welfare constituted a moral good into a methodology for promoting greater industrial efficiency. An eight hour day was introduced in 1896 and a five day (44 hour) working week in 1919.

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