More councils told to ‘plan for four-day week’ under Labour
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/jobs/more-councils-told-plan-four-day-week-under-labour/
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More councils told to ‘plan for four-day week’ under Labour
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/jobs/more-councils-told-plan-four-day-week-under-labour/
Posted by Fox_9810
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Aren’t we lucky, UBI too!
Of course since we have to phase out finite resources, the council won’t need to be cutting the grass as often, collecting bins as often….
[From a trial in a council it seems to be something that works](https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jul/08/largest-uk-public-sector-trial-four-day-week-sees-huge-benefits-research-finds-)
It needs careful management but if it provides the benefits the trial identified then it makes sense to expand the trial to other councils.
Non paywalled version?
Which councils are being told to plan for 4 day week? This is just campaigners saying “a more sympathetic Labour government could pave the way”
Even of there are no productivity gains it’ll be worth it to wind up ill-informed gobshites like Tarty Screwer, Mike Concrete and her from Hull that was on the Erprernterce.
If you can get in a sick day you have a four day weekend – that is superb
And I bet the East Midlands still sees nothing of this.
The problem is with hybrid working in most councils, it’s hard to actually gage employees productivity. If you take a day away I can’t see a benefit personally.
This story was already posted earlier, without the weird Telegraph spin.
Literally insane we need to be working more not less, work life balance is important but not the point where we are giving tens of thousands of people the ability to do less work! For the same amount of pay!
Unless they’re using it as a way to cut down wages And then make people do the same amount of work in the four days that they’re in?
Update. I’m a big Advocate for flexible working hours not mandating everyone to work a four day week this is because studies have shown that after a while productivity returns back to its 5 days working week levels! & everyone’s then just working a day less!
Didn’t explain that very well in my previous post above!
This is an opinion piece dressed as news, designed to trigger a certain group of people
Brilliant. I work with Councils at the moment and you can’t get hold of anyone or get a decision out of them in a reasonable period of time. This will definitely make it better.
How are they going to deliver services that require people to physically be out doing things? Less hours worked means less places attended. No doubt they will just use it as an excuse to hire a load more people to work part time and then cry there isn’t enough funding. Council tax bills on those of us who have to actually work will go up.
Oh God it’s hard enough to get them to work and do their job in first place
I can’t even get all the work done in a 5 day week. Wouldn’t work in healthcare.
Can they push this to higher education too thank you
Oh hang on; we are less than a week in and the Telegraph is already throwing meat to the base. Nice.
If any party manages to get the four day week to become standard I will abandon all other principles and vote for them for life.