https://neweconomics.opendemocracy.net/need-4-day-week-tackle-multiple-crises-work/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=need-4-day-week-tackle-multiple-crises-work Tue, 11 Sep 2018 13:19:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.4 https://neweconomics.opendemocracy.net/need-4-day-week-tackle-multiple-crises-work/#comment-667 Fri, 13 Oct 2017 22:09:00 +0000 https://www.opendemocracy.net/neweconomics/?p=1585#comment-667 Would this not have to be tied in to a Basic income as well?

]]> https://neweconomics.opendemocracy.net/need-4-day-week-tackle-multiple-crises-work/#comment-632 Wed, 11 Oct 2017 22:06:00 +0000 https://www.opendemocracy.net/neweconomics/?p=1585#comment-632 While I agree with the aspirations of most of this, I fear that without guarantees of job security, maintenance of a living wage, that many employers, rather than engaging 20/25% more staff, would use this as an opportunity to cut their wages bills and to demand ‘increased productivity’ from the remaining staff. They might employ spurious tactics like ‘four days on four days off’, which not only cut working hours and wages, but also mean that employees will over a short period have worked at least once on every day of the week.

]]>