Our thanks to Ken for Labour MPs call for four-day week as part of workers’ rights package. Labour MPs are calling for a four-day week, with workers being paid the same as they are currently paid for a five-day week. An extract:
Maya Ellis, Labour MP for Ribble Valley, said: “Data shows that working four days leads to greater productivity than five. [J4MB: Think of how high productivity would be if people worked only one day a week!]
“That means in public organisations for example, that we can get through a higher volume of tasks, creating the increase in capacity we so desperately need to see in our public services.”
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Lunatics. Apparently the Governments preferred candidate for Chief Inspector of Border Control is going to WFH, in Finland! Letting the cat out of the bag he reckons this will give him time for “writing reports” and “quiet contemplation”. Actually getting to know and physically inspecting will not figure because his journeys to the UK will be for “meetings”. I cannot get over the sheer arrogance of the individual and the idiocy of the politicians. For the latter why would you put such a job, in a very high profile area of political heat and storm in the hands of someone who’ll be quietly contemplating a thousand miles away? In a sense I suppose we should be grateful that the current governing party is so clearly showing they are on the side of “producer capture” where public services are run for the benefit and convenience of the workforce (well the administrative functions) and not the actual public who pay for them. “Yes minister” should be constantly re run as an accurate depiction of the reality of public services in this country.
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Data shows that working four days leads to greater productivity than five.
that would only make sense if the productivity volume is exactly the same but the producitivy per day increases because the same work has to be achieved in 80% of the time.
so what have they been doing in all the spare time? DEI and gender meetings?
do they envision a pre musk twitter environment so that they can do “a day in the life of..” videos?
a better idea would be to remove vast majority of wfh( that I suspect is one of the reasons for their poor productivity), then to work 5 days instead of 4 meaning a 20% increase in volume productivity( more stuff done),. meaning their productivity ceiling might start to edge towards the productivity floor of the private sector.
or better still maybe they should question if the poor productivity is a result of choosing people by DEI rather than merit because I can think of no better demonstration why gender quotas, affirmative action and DEI destroys business.
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