Ministers warn English councils not to adopt four-day working weeks
The council has said its continuing trial of the practice, in which office staff and bin collectors are paid the same for working 20% fewer hours, has already helped it improve recruitment and led to over £500,000 in savings on agency workers.
@Tattooed_mummy it's like government being against working from home.
Increased efficiency and productivity (things the UK has historically sucked at) are beside the point. Better environmental impact and "levelling up" are beside the point.
The only point is another culture war, based on boomer concerns that the young 'uns don't work hard enough to keep them (the boomers) in the style to which they are accustomed.
@danjac@Tattooed_mummy Whenever you see someone in power criticising working from home, you don't need to look far to see that they benefit somehow from commercial property investments. They either have investments themselves or they are funded in part by someone who does.
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An issue that surely should be worked out, industry by industry, employer by employer, with evidence?
Not a dictat from people scared their donors (landlords wanting rent in town centres) will object. What happened to government keeping its nose out of things?
But some of the Blue voters in the area are not happy - grumbling about how it shows that a better work-life balance can be achieved with lower rates of sickness and higher rates of retention, maintaining (or improving) levels of service whilst not making people poorer. 🤷♀️
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