Morrisons has abandoned its four-day working week for head office employees due to staff not wanting to have work weekends.
The supermarket initially reduced the weekly hours of staff at the office in Bradford from 40 to 37.5 in 2021, with employees working nine hours a day over four days and a six-hour day one Saturday a month.
However, the 13 Saturdays a year requirement was unpopular among employees.
The new plan, effective next month, introduces a four-and-a-half-day working week for 2,000 of its employees.
While staff will still work 37.5 hours a week, they are no longer obligated to work on Saturdays.
A shift to Saturday work was initially intended to support the company's 497 stores operating on weekends.
Rival Asda is hoping to introduce a four-day working week for its retail managers as it looks to deal with disgruntled employees, with staff in these roles seeing a 13.9% increase in turnover in 2022.
Staff at several Sainsbury’s head offices and store managers in its 1,400 British stores also work a four-day workweek as part of an ongoing company trial.