{"id":20022,"date":"2022-06-07T16:45:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T20:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=20022"},"modified":"2022-06-07T16:45:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T20:45:43","slug":"in-britain-a-new-test-of-an-old-dream-the-4-day-workweek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=20022","title":{"rendered":"In Britain, a New Test of an Old Dream: The 4-Day Workweek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A six-month program involving thousands of workers across 70 companies in Britain will be the latest effort to assess the effects of a shorter workweek.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/06\/business\/uk-four-day-work-week.html\">In Britain, a New Test of an Old Dream: The 4-Day Workweek<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>as i say, 32 hours would rebalance the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=9690\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">productivity vs wages discrpency since ~1970.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p>and this basic graph:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/usa-the-great-prosperity-the-great-recession-productivity-and-wages-1947-to-2009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"814\" height=\"717\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/usa-the-great-prosperity-the-great-recession-productivity-and-wages-1947-to-2009.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/usa-the-great-prosperity-the-great-recession-productivity-and-wages-1947-to-2009.jpg 814w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/usa-the-great-prosperity-the-great-recession-productivity-and-wages-1947-to-2009-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/usa-the-great-prosperity-the-great-recession-productivity-and-wages-1947-to-2009-768x676.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/usa-the-great-prosperity-the-great-recession-productivity-and-wages-1947-to-2009-675x595.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 814px) 100vw, 814px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A six-month program involving thousands of workers across 70 companies in Britain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[699,788,406],"class_list":["post-20022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-32-hour-week","tag-labour","tag-uk","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}