Four-day working week under Labour: How it could work and who is supporting it
Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. But, speaking to LBC, she added that flexible working was good for productivity, and that a four-day working week could work in a compressed form with four days of working 10 hours a week. Also, last week, deputy prime minister Angela Rayner suggested four-day weeks could improve productivity in local government. So the four-day week that I know is on the front of quite a lot of newspapers today, what we’re actually talking about there is the type of flexible working that enables you to use compressed hours.” This week, 17 UK companies, including Crate Brewery in Hackney and the British Society for Immunology, are joining a six-month experiment to test the viability of a four-day working week. It will be businesses and consumers who pay and growth that suffers if they don’t listen.” Labour ministers have insisted they have “no plans” to force businesses to accept a four-day working week.
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