This only really works if you have enough staff. Which public services often don’t.
I know this sub has some strange bot pushing this, but there’s nothing stopping probate companies doing this if it’s beneficial.
If you work in healthcare you can work a 3 day week sadly you have the joys of 11.5hr shifts.
Hearing the older generation seethe at this idea on the radio was hysterical. Calling us all lazy beggers. One even tried saying his 70 hour work week was nothing, he just got on with it. He had no fucking life until he retired.
Then you’d get callers who already work 4 days a week, like factory workers and care workers.
Having an extra day off, means I can focus more time to study, rest and spend money in town if I wanted. Live life.
Haha take away 20% of the labour from services already in crisis. Good one.
Working for a local authority and previously having worked a 4 on, 4 off rota I can say, from an employee’s point of view, I preferred working the 4 day week by a large margin. It meant more time with my family, I’d go back to work refreshed and often looked forward to going back to work, generally because the kids had driven me batty (you can never win.)
It also allowed the company I worked for to operate 7 days a week without resorting to overtime. The owner noticed productivity went up, sickness plummeted
With regards to the local authorities, it would mean we could work beyond 5 without incurring overtime, which would suit our service users more, as a vast majority of people work and be operational 7 days a week, not 5.
But, Councils are run by a board and effecting change is harder than finding an honest politician. It took 3yrs for my department to enact changes which saved large sums of money and a huge environmental improvement. Why because of what is affectionately known as “Council mentality” it’s the way we’ve always done it.
For fucks sake, public services are shit already, can’t imagine if they work one less day.
I’ve been working 4 days a week for almost 2 years now, there are two of us here who do it. I have Mondays off and the other has Fridays off, which suits everyone quite well. Often people think “four day work week” means “no one’ll work on Friday”, but that’s just silly.
I find myself to be more productive throughout the entire week compared to my 100% colleagues. The extra day off is amazing too – it’s had such a positive effect on my personal life. I’m happier, I sleep better and I have so much time to do things I wanna do. I honestly couldn’t care any less about the extra £1000 a month that is *missing* as I am time-rich, which is more important.
It could work, however we are years away from that happening in many sectors. Until we hire and train those staff, you could not operate the services four days a week at a reasonable level. That would require a huge amount of investment and a cultural shift towards no longer working to live. I cannot see either of those happening soon.
My office does 4, 10 hour days and honestly, I can’t imagine not doing it now. The whole extra day without work has changed my lifestyle completely, I love it!
On hearing the news, many Welsh public service employees were outraged at the idea of having to start doing four whole workdays every week.
Should be an ideal fit for the public service as they don’t have real targets or have to turn a profit
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This only really works if you have enough staff. Which public services often don’t.
I know this sub has some strange bot pushing this, but there’s nothing stopping probate companies doing this if it’s beneficial.
If you work in healthcare you can work a 3 day week sadly you have the joys of 11.5hr shifts.
Hearing the older generation seethe at this idea on the radio was hysterical. Calling us all lazy beggers. One even tried saying his 70 hour work week was nothing, he just got on with it. He had no fucking life until he retired.
Then you’d get callers who already work 4 days a week, like factory workers and care workers.
Having an extra day off, means I can focus more time to study, rest and spend money in town if I wanted. Live life.
Haha take away 20% of the labour from services already in crisis. Good one.
Working for a local authority and previously having worked a 4 on, 4 off rota I can say, from an employee’s point of view, I preferred working the 4 day week by a large margin. It meant more time with my family, I’d go back to work refreshed and often looked forward to going back to work, generally because the kids had driven me batty (you can never win.)
It also allowed the company I worked for to operate 7 days a week without resorting to overtime. The owner noticed productivity went up, sickness plummeted
With regards to the local authorities, it would mean we could work beyond 5 without incurring overtime, which would suit our service users more, as a vast majority of people work and be operational 7 days a week, not 5.
But, Councils are run by a board and effecting change is harder than finding an honest politician. It took 3yrs for my department to enact changes which saved large sums of money and a huge environmental improvement. Why because of what is affectionately known as “Council mentality” it’s the way we’ve always done it.
For fucks sake, public services are shit already, can’t imagine if they work one less day.
I’ve been working 4 days a week for almost 2 years now, there are two of us here who do it. I have Mondays off and the other has Fridays off, which suits everyone quite well. Often people think “four day work week” means “no one’ll work on Friday”, but that’s just silly.
I find myself to be more productive throughout the entire week compared to my 100% colleagues. The extra day off is amazing too – it’s had such a positive effect on my personal life. I’m happier, I sleep better and I have so much time to do things I wanna do. I honestly couldn’t care any less about the extra £1000 a month that is *missing* as I am time-rich, which is more important.
It could work, however we are years away from that happening in many sectors. Until we hire and train those staff, you could not operate the services four days a week at a reasonable level. That would require a huge amount of investment and a cultural shift towards no longer working to live. I cannot see either of those happening soon.
My office does 4, 10 hour days and honestly, I can’t imagine not doing it now. The whole extra day without work has changed my lifestyle completely, I love it!
On hearing the news, many Welsh public service employees were outraged at the idea of having to start doing four whole workdays every week.
Should be an ideal fit for the public service as they don’t have real targets or have to turn a profit