Ministers warn English councils not to adopt four-day working weeks
Central government’s attempt to restrict councils’ ability to try out the practice is ‘a massive overreach’, say council leaders
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Of course, if local governments implement a four-day workweek, they might force businesses in the area to do the same. Can't have the investor class making marginally less money.
A lot of companies have seen increased productivity and lower expenses by switching to a 4 day work week. It's not about money, it's about control. If it were about money these companies would be jumping at the opportunity to let employees work from home. Just think of how much money they could save in office rent alone, not to mention things like electric and water bills, internet, maintenance employees, janitors, etc. Letting people work from home could increase profits by eliminating a major expense.
But they're fighting tooth and nail against both WFH and the 4 day work week.
If it were about money these companies would be jumping at the opportunity to let employees work from home.
But the office is four years into a ten year lease, so any savings will end up being some other manager's bonus. Right now I need everyone to be in the office to attend my pizza party because that's what you're getting instead of a raise.
Middle Management
You dramatically overestimate how much of a fuck they give about you if you seriously think they're passing up increased profits purely because they feel some villainous need to exert extra control over your life. They do not care about you. They do not care about their workers. They do not care about the consumer.
The only thing they give a shit about is their profits and how to maximize them.
We constantly hear them going off about how people with WFH aren't working as hard, if at all. There are always wealthy fucks throwing shade at the 4 day work week as nothing but worker greed. They never believe the studies, because we're living in an age where fucks like that will gladly ignore solid research and documented studies because they "feel" like it's wrong.
And really, which is actually easier to believe? That some old fart who thinks his workers are all slackers anyway thinks that letting them work unsupervised at home will let them just do the bare minimum amount of work? Or some cabal of C-suite executives forgoing their own pay raise and bonus because they hate the idea that you might be comfortable while you work?
Well yes and no.
A big reason for the 40 hr week (and the main barrier to Universal Basic Income, although advocates deny it) is that the ruling class need people to simply be occupied and doing something.
If lots of people have lots of free time, they get all sorts of ideas about how society should be, and start protesting and stuff .
Can’t have that .
The reality is they would probably make more. Greater productivity, lower electric bills, stuff like that.
That's not even the point, lots of companies have successfully implemented the 100-80-100 model (the last 100 meaning the company sees the same profit). The point is making workers too tired to notice the oligarchs' scam.
I can tell you right now that I do fuck all on a Friday anyway. May as well give me the day off.
