Britain’s national government said on Thursday that local authorities should stop testing a four-day work week for their employees. This would result in less work being done by local authorities, which would hurt taxpaying citizens.
Some local governments are experimenting with a 20 percent shorter work week, while employees keep their old salaries.
They follow the example of several companies that previously introduced the shorter working week. According to these companies, a shorter work week provides a better work-life balance without reducing productivity.
Earlier this year, a British survey of thousands of people found that a four-day work week is much more productive for most employees than the traditional five-day work week.
“We had a lot of happy people, people really enjoyed it,” Professor Brendan Burchell of the University of Cambridge said at the time. “They really thought it was a reward to have a three-day weekend instead of two.”
But the British government thinks otherwise. “The Government is making it very clear that it does not support the introduction of the four-day working week in the local government sector,” Lee Rowley said. It’s about local government in London government.
“Local authorities considering introducing it should not do so. Those that have already adopted it should immediately end the practice.”
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