Our thanks to Nigel for this. He writes:
“I despair. Not only four day week for schools but a 32 hour week for the same pay as a five day week. A profession steadily becomes female dominated and stage by stage it becomes less and less productive. As we can see in GP services where part time work is practically the norm.
In education we’ll see even more inconsistent education as they “cover” and have supply teachers filling in as teachers enjoy a pay rise with less actual work and better “work life balance”. Add in the huge army of teaching assistants etc. which simply didn’t exist 20 years ago and yet another public service is run for the convenience of its workers rather than the people who its supposed to serve, in this case pupils and their education.
As it is many teachers are part time and schools do accommodate request for part time work. At least they don’t have to pay full time salaries. All this at a time when the nation desperately needs to get real and up its productivity to climb out of debt and stagnation.”
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Its a nice idea, But I suspect the economy cannot afford it, especially as everyone is upset by the NI hike( and no doubt more taxes)
work life balance is important, but five days work will be crammed into 4 days and it will just increase peoples stress levels, never mind that productivity will fall. Years of Wage stagnation is supposed to be down to the stagnation in productivity( among other more obvious reasons that both labour and tories have refused to acknowledge is right in front of them).
… and guess which demographic will be expected to pick up the slack ??
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