Lordo wrote:Don't you just love it when another nail is driven into the coffin Swine everywhere. Now this is very interesting. Some Swine will actually claim it will cost more. Read it, roll it, shove it and smoke it babies my little baby Swine.The first UK council to experiment with a four-day working week is expected to extend the trial after analysis showed it was “overwhelmingly positive” for staff health and wellbeing
without denting performance.
About 450 mainly desk-based employees of the Liberal Democrat-led South Cambridgeshire council embarked on the three-month pilot in January. They could choose to take Monday or Friday off and were expected to work more productively in the remaining four days. Their pay was not affected.
Papers prepared for the council’s employment and staffing committee, which is due to meet on 2 May, recommend that the trial be extended for another 12 months. They also suggest that workers involved in refuse collection be invited to join a separate, three-month pilot of the four-day week.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/apr/29/first-uk-council-trial-of-four-day-week-set-to-be-extended-success
Clearly, they should sack 20% of the staff and pass the saving onto those that have been forced to pay for their largesse...