Labour MP tables first ever parliamentary bill to bring in four-day working work

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  1. Just watching Andy Burnham on Sky News. He’s just torn the Tories apart. He absolutely smashed them to bits. It was very impressive. I really like Burnham.

  2. It’s more likely at this point that truss will announce a return to a 6 or 7 day working week and the reintroduction of workhouses and debtors prisons.

  3. I always see a lot of resistance for stuff like this and WFH from boomers and retirees… are they just envious they had to work 5 days and want everyone else to suffer?

  4. Whilst I support the idea of a trial, I think it needs really careful implementation… I worry that this could end with some kind of pro-rata pay cut, or a further reduction of our competitiveness as a nation.

    IMO companies need to be convinced that overall output will remain similar – otherwise, despite the advances in productivity over recent decades, it’ll be seen as a ‘step back’.

  5. How does the cost of losing those hours to shift work like police, firefighters and NHS be covered as more staff would be required to cover this.
    At an additional cost, assume individuals still get paid for five days it’s not an easy thing to implement.

    I think it’s a good idea tho

  6. >four-day working work

    Labour MP tables first ever parliamentary bill to bring in four-day working week

    It’s literally easier to copy/paste the headline.

  7. Whilst I would love this, would never happen in my job. It’s a sales company – they’ll never close for a Friday. Best we get are early finishes

  8. This’ll only affect jobs that are already decent

    It won’t affect care workers, retail workers, hospitality etc

  9. I already work 4 day weeks 0730-1730 and it’s basically agreed by everyone that you’ll work about 6ish hours of that time. Obviously as long as the work gets done for the day and your taking the piss, everyone is cool with it

  10. great idea. I would much prefer to work 4 x 10 hour days, but I hear on the radio some of the trials were 4 x 8 hours but still get 100% pay … and there was no loss in productivity – they made savings by cutting out a daily 30min meeting and reducing emails by only including those that need to action something (I’d love that, half the work emails I get I read and just think why on earth did you cc me!)

  11. Pointless introducing a bill you know has zero possibility of passing, their just trying for good pr. The litmus test will be if Labour try again when Tories get crushed next GE.

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