Lee Rowley says a trial, which a council leader says cut the need for agency staff, should end now.

The local government minister has formally requested a council ends its trial of a four-day week “immediately” over concerns about “value for money”.

    • TediousParrot@feddit.ukEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      I sometimes think this is because of commercial real-estate, the death of the high-street, Pret not making as much money, etc.

      But more often than not I think that it is because MPs and CEOs don’t actually like spending time with their families. Their work is their hobby, they don’t want to be ‘home with the kids’, and they like the office culture they have developed over their career. In the office they are important. At home they have to do the dishes.

      • CrypticCoffee@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Most ofthenm haven’t worked a real job in their lives. Their policies come from their donors. Big business. If this succeeds, all workers start asking for it, and directors have to give “free time off”.

      • noodle@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Frankly, I hope Pret goes into liquidation. The high street is dying because there’s too many franchises that squash local businesses into submission.

        And the nerve of these companies to have subscription services for coffee is disgusting. Rent seeking is shit in general, but in the food industry? It’s a low I never thought we’d sink to.

        The day McDonald’s starts a subscription service is the day I finally admit the human race deserves to go extinct.