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Jan 2022
10:37pm, 24 Jan 2022
16,332 posts
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rf_fozzy
4 day week starting to gain some traction. amp.ft.com (Or Google: "Get ready for the four-day working week" to get the open link to the FT article) |
Jan 2022
10:39pm, 24 Jan 2022
4,060 posts
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J2R
Yes, jda, spot on about Cummings. Very much a lightweight, with delusions about himself. But he clearly manages to convince people who should know better.
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Jan 2022
10:49pm, 24 Jan 2022
2,179 posts
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Fields
Interesting article fozzy. I think chefs would still do 60 hours on a 4 day week, it’s a very hours intensive job
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Jan 2022
11:20pm, 24 Jan 2022
16,333 posts
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rf_fozzy
Its not just chefs, Fields. Other professions too And the point of it is that it's not that you take the y hours you'd work in 5 days and cram it into 4, its pro-rata, for the same pay. The studies show that people get the same work done as it cuts down on unproductive time/sick days etc etc. However, jobs where they are employing people to do a 6 day job in 5 days will have to reconsider. Mainly because those people will leave to go to jobs with better work-life balance. It's happening in the NHS and academia won't be far behind if they don't change. |
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Jan 2022
11:35pm, 24 Jan 2022
2,182 posts
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Fields
I certainly hope it becomes commonplace in my lifetime. Particularly as working on trains when commuting and “doing emails in the evening” seems to be expected by many employers.
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Jan 2022
7:16am, 25 Jan 2022
52,512 posts
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LindsD
6 days' work in 5 is normal in my job. And 6/7 days' work in 6/7 days for 5 days' pay.
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Jan 2022
7:34am, 25 Jan 2022
2,500 posts
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Surelynot
I’ve often thought about the phrase ‘Red Wall’ and how I’d never heard it until recently. I then chanced across this interesting article gapingsilence.wordpress.com TL:DR - there is no red wall only ‘seats the Conservatives won from Labour’. To develop an electoral strategy on ‘winning back the Red Wall’ is basing strategy on fantasy. |
Jan 2022
7:35am, 25 Jan 2022
5,714 posts
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Dave W
Yeh, but it makes a nice "soundbite". Which is all that seems to matter for this government.
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Jan 2022
8:02am, 25 Jan 2022
2,501 posts
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Surelynot
It’s not the government who coined the phrase. Or put forward the analysis.
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Jan 2022
8:08am, 25 Jan 2022
2,189 posts
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Fields
I bet there’s no bricks in the red wall either. Isnt it just a lazy political shorthand for a type / group of voter such as Basildon Man, Mondeo Man, Soccer Mom in the US. |
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