It will assess the wellbeing, environmental and productivity benefits of a reduced working week, all of which have seen positive trends in other trials.
by jammybam
It will assess the wellbeing, environmental and productivity benefits of a reduced working week, all of which have seen positive trends in other trials.
by jammybam
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It will never happen.
“public sector” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, is it not just the civil service? And one relatively small part of the civil service at that? I’m in favour of this but stop making it sound bigger than it is.
[press release here](https://greens.scot/news/4-day-week-trial-will-have-transformative-impact-on-work-and-health)
The normalisation of a four day working week with no loss of pay will have a transformative impact on the health and wellbeing of workers and on their performance, say the Scottish Greens.
The party’s finance spokesperson, Ross Greer MSP, has welcomed the announcement that the Scottish Government is commencing a 4 Day Working Week Public Sector Pilot, which will assess the wellbeing, environmental and productivity benefits a reduced working week could bring.
The pilot, announced today following a Government Initiated Question by Mr Greer, was secured by the Scottish Greens shortly after the party joined the Scottish Government.
The Scottish Greens Party have themselves already adopted a four day working week for staff, with positive results. Better work-life balance, less stress, being better able to deal with difficult situations, and more control over their lives are just some of the benefits which staff have reported.
The World Economic Forum recently noted that pilots of the four day working week in Spain increased productivity, improved the physical and mental health of workers and reduced CO2 emissions as a result of fewer cars being on the road during the working week.
Is this a proper 4 day working week or compressed hours?
My local tip went from five days a week walk in to three days a week book in advance.
Still employs eight FTE people though, they’re kept super busy by the actual ducks that they keep in their office. Can see them waddling in and out (the ducks, not the refuse faffing engineers).
Will it be like that?
So if they can manage with 20% less time does that mean they are employing 20% more staff than they need?
More trendy middle class bullshit from the greens as per usual then where they are more concerned about whatever is trending than actually fixing anything that matters to working class people
Having worked in the public sector (for a quango) those people get every benefit imaginable and do virtually no work. Most are just waiting for a big payoff.
Adding in 4 days weeks is just an incredibly bad idea.
While out taxes go up, we get less for them again.