UK tells local authorities in England to stop four-day week trials
UK tells local authorities in England to stop four-day week trials
Britain on Thursday told local government councils in England to end any trials of a four-day working week for their employees, saying the idea does not offer taxpayers good value for money.
The scheme, where staff have their working hours cut by 20% while keeping their existing salary, has been adopted by some businesses which argue it improves work-life balance without damaging productivity.
Yes.
65Reality and facts don't matter to conservatives, only how they feel about something. They feel people should be worked harder. So these trials are getting shelved.
24That's the thing. At first people were doing the 4day work week properly, without an extra 2hrs on the other days.
I don't want to have 3 days off, if it means next 4 days I feel like a fucking slave.
Either employers consider that extra off day as a "loss" on their side (not really because I believe it's worth it in productivity and talent you could potentially attract with proper work/life balance), or just keep the crappy 5 days work week...
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This isn't about value for the taxpayer. It's about power. It's about keeping those peons in line.
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At one point in my career I had a 4-day week and let me tell you that it was glorious. Instead of barely having time on the weekend to recover from the eat-work-sleep daily grind, I actually had some time to feel human again and even spend some money on a hobby. A hobby!
32At one point I had every other Friday off and even having the three day weekend only every other week was really refreshing and such a nice break. I miss it, I've been hoping it becomes more common.
12I'll never go back to anything more than a three day week. And if I had to feed on gruel only, I'd never accept this kind work ethic being forced on me again.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
LONDON, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Britain on Thursday told local government councils in England to end any trials of a four-day working week for their employees, saying the idea does not offer taxpayers good value for money.
The scheme, where staff have their working hours cut by 20% while keeping their existing salary, has been adopted by some businesses which argue it improves work-life balance without damaging productivity.
"The government is being crystal clear that it does not support the adoption of the four-day working week within the local government sector," Britain's minister for local government Lee Rowley said in a statement.
"Local authorities that are considering adopting it should not do so.
Those who have adopted it already should end those practice immediately."
The government said it supported the right of individual employees to request flexible working, such as changes to their hours or location of work, but "removing 20% of a local authority's potential capacity does not offer value for money for residents".
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30Fucking morons in ivory towers. Complaining about removing 20% of capacity while simultaneously ignoring the fact that productivity is at running at 60% for the 5 day week. Remove a day and work at 80% and there’s still room for improvement in capacity but these leeches have never worked a real day in their lives to understand that
54At no point of the indicator that they understand the core point.
The entire point is it doesn't affect productivity. These guys really are melons.
I used to work in government and the amount of sitting around we did was ridiculous. It was definitely more than 20% I'll tell you that. We used to spend ages waiting for department A to do their job, so department B could do their jobs, so we could do our job. The actual task would only take maybe 5% of the time already allocated but we had to wait.
14This guys knows whats up.
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People might be happier without drawbacks. Stop it!
20I really hope they'll never ever reduce public offices opening times in my country (which are still reduced are the pandemic). The bureaucracy is already not working due high levels of inefficiency, corruption and absenteeism. It'll be a nightmare. I'm from 🇮🇹🍕🤌 needless to say
9and here I was hoping it would say to stop trialing and start implementing. Sad.
8I see Tufton St. has put its foot down
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