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Four-day week

December 2023

  • Neatly lined up bins in Newcastle upon Tyne

    Ministers threaten to withhold cash from English councils on four-day week

    As one local authority carries out trial, government plans to use ‘financial levers’ to stop practice

November 2023

  • Our new spiritual guru … Simon Cowell.

    Pass notes
    The long-weekend lifestyle: is it ‘pointless’ to work on Fridays?

    Multi-millionaire media mogul Simon Cowell has the four-day working week cracked – and there’s a lot we can learn from his schedule

October 2023

  • Lee Rowley, minister for local government, who said councils that had adopted the four-day working week ‘should end the practice immediately’

    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

September 2023

  • Blue bins lined up on a street in Cambourne

    Cambridgeshire council defies ministers to plough on with four-day week

  • Humza Yousaf gestures with his hand as he speaks

    Scottish government plans trial of four-day week in civil service

July 2023

  • Darren and Tash Hudson-Stryder in Cambourne.

    ‘The council should be setting an example’: Cambourne’s experiment with the four-day week

    While a minister has told South Cambridgeshire council to stop its trial, residents are split – if they have noticed at all
  • Office workers and other people relaxing in a park.

    Rightwing lobby group campaigns to undermine UK four-day week

    TaxPayers Alliance is key player in attempts to end trials of shorter working week in public sector
  • Four-day week calendar illustration

    Minister orders halt to Cambridgeshire council’s four-day week trial

    Local government minister Lee Rowley says he has concerns about value for money for taxpayers
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