ANDREW NEIL: The four-day week is a culture based on folly and built on fantasy. If Labour backs it, it will be the ruin of us
There’s a head of steam building up for a four-day working week, backed by various ‘progressive’ pressure groups and think-tanks, Leftish local councils, much of the Labour Party and, naturally, public-sector trade unions, enjoying a new lease of life under an indulgent Labour government. At a time when Britain’s fundamental economic weakness is low productivity, which is impeding economic growth and undermining living standards, it is not immediately clear to me how paying people the same to do eight hours less work a week does anything to tackle that problem. Demands that Sir Keir Starmer's party bring in a four-day week, or version thereof, are now rampant in the public sector, Andrew Neil writes The problem is particularly acute, as you might have guessed, in the public sector, where far from increasing at a snail’s pace, it’s declining fast. But then the district council’s chief executive already has a lot on her plate: she’s been busy with a doctorate on the four-day week while tending to her day job.
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