No chance of this ever happening under this government. Truss and Mogg are already planning to scrap the working-time directive in the UK. They want people to work until they drop and do nothing else.
Even if this trial finishes with nothing but great results and positive feedback from both employees and employers, it will be ignored.
Nope, the idiot Tories are going in the other direction, Scrapping any limits on working time.
If you can’t raise productivity by actually incentivising the workers, make them go on until they drop.
Welcome to Global Sweatshop Britain. “Work like an Indian” is how Mogg wants it: 9-9, and for low Indian wages.
If the current governments not careful there will be problems bigger than now.
Swapping to a 4 day week would mean I could take my son out of nursery for the one day a week he’s there.
This would save me £200 a month
£2400 a year just from that. It’d certainly help
As much as I would love a four day work week how will getting paid even less help the col crisis
My workplace didn’t allow the staff to have today, an actual bank holiday, off. Cited that the cost to the business would be too much, so here I am at my desk. 4 day weeks absolutely not happening.
Will never happen regularly in Britain, between the torys and then the mega corporations want to squeeze every minute out of their employeers. The big businesses would have us working 6 days a week if they could.
If a 5 day working week is less optimal than a 4 day working week, is it not worth considering, if a 4 day working week is less optimal than a 3 day working week.
[Thinktanks mostly tank and rarely think]
I don’t see how schools would work under a 4 day week. If you extend the school day to allow coverage of the curriculum then you add 2 hours to each day right ? Well here’s the thing, kids can barely cope to behave and take in all the information when they do 5 lessons a day, let alone 7.
I don’t know why it should be so controversial to just simply consider the idea, the system that we have now was designed over 100 years ago and is hardly optimised to today’s times.
Think about a standard office worker who works eight hours, I dare say that they’re only productive for about four of them unless it’s a CallCenter in which case all of your time is monitored.
And just like people who thought that work from home wouldn’t be possible, and they were proven wrong and I think that the four-day week could also be implemented if there was the political will to do so.
If it was the same four days each week, get in. I can see some employers mandating four on four off so that each week you start on a different day. That would suck for a lot of people who need continuity.
“Four-day week could alleviate cost of living crisis*, thinktank claims”
* For parents who use full-time childcare and commute to work.
I wish this could be a thing. A 9-5 is depressing and leaves little time for a real work life balance. A four day work week cuts off one day of work and adds one extra day off and actually gives you some form of a work life balance. People would be so much happier and have more of a life.
This govt will want a 7 day week never mind a 4 day week. And they will want a stop to work from home. Congestion charges wont pay for themselves you know 😂
I suspect a lot of people could go down to four days already. If I got stricter about the meetings I go to, I could probably start tomorrow.
Not going to happen if this means less profits for the energy companies the Tories are in love with.
Taking the stolen money back from the wealthy, of course.
But instead the Tories want to do accelerationism.
The whole things a house of cards because we don’t make stuff anymore.
I always wonder how this sort of change would effect the public sector.
Say you’re a nurse, or a cop or another ludicrously under funded and overworked public sector employee.
How would this work for them, if at all?
If you’re a nurse in a major city and already struggle to get time off, is it even feasible to look into swapping to this? If people on the front line can’t get time off now (which they can’t) how can they under a 4 day week?
I do think a 4 day work week would be incredible… But I’ve never seen anyone explain the practicality of spreading it equally.
“Truss and Mogg agree but remove Friday, Saturday and Sunday from the calendar effectively scrapping weekends and making Thirsty Thursdays the new Fridays.”
Theyre call conservatives for a reason. They want to resist change and perpetually believe new ideas are bad.
I work 4 day a week in the uk, 4, 10 hours days and I get the chance of overtime Friday and Saturday if I want it.
More employers should take this way on and give more people options.
Nah we’re just gonna go back to the victorian era where you work until you cant work any longer for minimal pay and benefits.
Think tanks work 0 days a week and they seem to survive.
Just do less everyone, act your wage. Read your contract ask for more money if you do more than it states, look for another job, there are loads out there.
Currently work for a company doing 4 day week in the UK and our productivity went up by 50% after running the trial so we stuck to it. Any meetings with clients or anything that’s done on a Friday is just made up through the week. Everyone seems a lot happier and retention is really good.
Nay sayers are generally just boomers who hit their PC when they lose connection to a network drive. I like doing my errands on Friday morning, going to the gym and sorting out simple stuff like doing the dishes without worrying.
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No chance of this ever happening under this government. Truss and Mogg are already planning to scrap the working-time directive in the UK. They want people to work until they drop and do nothing else.
Even if this trial finishes with nothing but great results and positive feedback from both employees and employers, it will be ignored.
Nope, the idiot Tories are going in the other direction, Scrapping any limits on working time.
If you can’t raise productivity by actually incentivising the workers, make them go on until they drop.
Welcome to Global Sweatshop Britain. “Work like an Indian” is how Mogg wants it: 9-9, and for low Indian wages.
If the current governments not careful there will be problems bigger than now.
Swapping to a 4 day week would mean I could take my son out of nursery for the one day a week he’s there.
This would save me £200 a month
£2400 a year just from that. It’d certainly help
As much as I would love a four day work week how will getting paid even less help the col crisis
My workplace didn’t allow the staff to have today, an actual bank holiday, off. Cited that the cost to the business would be too much, so here I am at my desk. 4 day weeks absolutely not happening.
Will never happen regularly in Britain, between the torys and then the mega corporations want to squeeze every minute out of their employeers. The big businesses would have us working 6 days a week if they could.
If a 5 day working week is less optimal than a 4 day working week, is it not worth considering, if a 4 day working week is less optimal than a 3 day working week.
[Thinktanks mostly tank and rarely think]
I don’t see how schools would work under a 4 day week. If you extend the school day to allow coverage of the curriculum then you add 2 hours to each day right ? Well here’s the thing, kids can barely cope to behave and take in all the information when they do 5 lessons a day, let alone 7.
I don’t know why it should be so controversial to just simply consider the idea, the system that we have now was designed over 100 years ago and is hardly optimised to today’s times.
Think about a standard office worker who works eight hours, I dare say that they’re only productive for about four of them unless it’s a CallCenter in which case all of your time is monitored.
And just like people who thought that work from home wouldn’t be possible, and they were proven wrong and I think that the four-day week could also be implemented if there was the political will to do so.
If it was the same four days each week, get in. I can see some employers mandating four on four off so that each week you start on a different day. That would suck for a lot of people who need continuity.
“Four-day week could alleviate cost of living crisis*, thinktank claims”
* For parents who use full-time childcare and commute to work.
I wish this could be a thing. A 9-5 is depressing and leaves little time for a real work life balance. A four day work week cuts off one day of work and adds one extra day off and actually gives you some form of a work life balance. People would be so much happier and have more of a life.
This govt will want a 7 day week never mind a 4 day week. And they will want a stop to work from home. Congestion charges wont pay for themselves you know 😂
I suspect a lot of people could go down to four days already. If I got stricter about the meetings I go to, I could probably start tomorrow.
Not going to happen if this means less profits for the energy companies the Tories are in love with.
Taking the stolen money back from the wealthy, of course.
But instead the Tories want to do accelerationism.
The whole things a house of cards because we don’t make stuff anymore.
Truss and Smogg would much rather replicate the [996](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system) work ethic, although in their case they’d probably rename it 666
I always wonder how this sort of change would effect the public sector.
Say you’re a nurse, or a cop or another ludicrously under funded and overworked public sector employee.
How would this work for them, if at all?
If you’re a nurse in a major city and already struggle to get time off, is it even feasible to look into swapping to this? If people on the front line can’t get time off now (which they can’t) how can they under a 4 day week?
I do think a 4 day work week would be incredible… But I’ve never seen anyone explain the practicality of spreading it equally.
“Truss and Mogg agree but remove Friday, Saturday and Sunday from the calendar effectively scrapping weekends and making Thirsty Thursdays the new Fridays.”
Theyre call conservatives for a reason. They want to resist change and perpetually believe new ideas are bad.
I work 4 day a week in the uk, 4, 10 hours days and I get the chance of overtime Friday and Saturday if I want it.
More employers should take this way on and give more people options.
Nah we’re just gonna go back to the victorian era where you work until you cant work any longer for minimal pay and benefits.
Think tanks work 0 days a week and they seem to survive.
Just do less everyone, act your wage. Read your contract ask for more money if you do more than it states, look for another job, there are loads out there.
Currently work for a company doing 4 day week in the UK and our productivity went up by 50% after running the trial so we stuck to it. Any meetings with clients or anything that’s done on a Friday is just made up through the week. Everyone seems a lot happier and retention is really good.
Nay sayers are generally just boomers who hit their PC when they lose connection to a network drive. I like doing my errands on Friday morning, going to the gym and sorting out simple stuff like doing the dishes without worrying.