Glasgow council four-day week on full pay moves closer after study agreed

The title for this article is misleading. It only says they've agreed to a study to investigate it. There's a world of difference between that and actually approving a 4-day week for all.

I hope they land on Mondays off, rather than Fridays. For us 5 day rubes, getting stuff done on Friday IMO helps keep our weekends less worrisome, and jobs under city council purview would be (I imagine) rare but important interactions for the average citizen.

This is pretty great, but I hope they use it to investigate whether it makes workers 20% more productive rather than as a way to possibly justify eliminating 20% of their staff. The only real news I&#x27;ve seen relating to Glasgow City Council recently [0] suggests they&#x27;re relatively progressive so hopefully it&#x27;s the former.<p>[0] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.heraldscotland.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;20183796.queens-jubilee-glasgow-councillors-say-using-public-money-crass&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.heraldscotland.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;20183796.queens-jubilee-...</a>

For things like this (whether they &quot;approved&quot; it or are just investigating it or whatever), how does the ability of the government to legislate and regulate intersect with the rights of people to do as they please?<p>For example, if I make and sell widgets (i.e. I own a &quot;company&quot; of one), and I wanna work 6 days a week, can the government prevent me from doing that? If someone wants to work with me (i.e. join my &quot;company&quot;) and I don&#x27;t want them to (i.e. I won&#x27;t hire them) if they&#x27;re not also working 6 days a week like I am, can the government prevent me from refusing them?<p>I guess I&#x27;m asking why a city council is investigating this rather than companies themselves. Or rather than regulating, are they going to offer tax breaks to incentivize companies to adopt a four-day workweek? I&#x27;m just confused about what interest they have in doing this.<p>Disclaimer: I&#x27;m a fucking idiot and I have no idea what I&#x27;m talking about, just asking questions because I&#x27;m clueless.

This is great. It&#x27;s the first time I&#x27;ve seen it promoted without a 20% pay cut at the same time.

Anyone done this kind of four day week? Presumably one can&#x27;t let everyone work Monday - Thursday and all have Friday off, or business comes to a complete halt on (all) Fridays every week which I&#x27;m guessing isn&#x27;t really part of the plan.<p>Does it typically mean people have their four working days randomly allocated? Does that change in some kind of cycle? If so, is that not somewhat disruptive if - say - a couple people are working together on something but one of them is off Monday and the other on Tuesday, they won&#x27;t be able to work together until Wednesday?

Great. Another benefit for the salaried over the hourly. I couldn&#x27;t find a solid answer, but I very much doubt that this pronouncement comes with a 20% raise for everyone paid by the hour.

&gt; based on the 100:80:100 model — 100 % of pay for 80% of the time, with a commitment to maintain 100% productivity<p>Does anyone know how the baseline &quot;productivity&quot; will be measured?<p>And what happens to workers that do not meet the productivity? Do they go back to the 5-day week?

If the results of the study is negative, what are the odds that we&#x27;d have a nicely upvoted follow-up post here spreading those results for all to read? I&#x27;d guess virtually zero.

The linked article&#x27;s title is actually &quot;Glasgow council four-day week on full pay moves closer after study agreed&quot; which is what this should be changed to.

My previous local council (Havering) have done this for years. It&#x27;s pretty standard. It&#x27;s just an extension of &quot;flexible hours&quot;.

I wish they would start those studies with private companies. I am not sure about what is the situation in Glasgow but here in Toronto and in Canada in general the situation with the government services in many areas is atrocious. They are already behind in so many areas and keep blaming everything on Covid despite the fact that nothing prevents them to do their work from home.<p>In any case those bloodsuckers should be working more, not less. Apology to those who actually work and strive to serve the people.

For just the council staff.

Doesn&#x27;t this mean the Glasgow City Council is overstaffed and should layoff 20% of their workers?

Courtesy of the taxpayer. This is why we need less government, not more. These jobs are already useless, now to add insult to injury, they’re giving themselves all sorts of nice benefits while their constituents starve (YOY inflation is 10% in GB).