{"id":38973,"date":"2025-02-04T22:32:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T03:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=38973"},"modified":"2025-02-04T22:32:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T03:32:16","slug":"two-hundred-uk-companies-sign-up-for-permanent-four-day-working-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=38973","title":{"rendered":"Two hundred UK companies sign up for permanent four-day working week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/50ca73de95fe2d2505983c5ff9fcfc1f386f2800\/0_146_6016_3610\/master\/6016.jpg?width=1900&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" width=\"313\" height=\"188\" \/>More than 5,000 workers to benefit from reduced hours with no loss of pay<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2025\/jan\/27\/two-hundred-uk-companies-sign-up-for-permanent-four-day-working-week\">Two hundred UK companies sign up for permanent four-day working week<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Proponents of the four-day week say that the five-day pattern is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/oct\/17\/four-day-week-british-new-bill-workers-businesses\">hangover from an earlier economic age<\/a>. Joe Ryle, the foundation\u2019s campaign director, said that the \u201c9-5, five-day working week was invented 100 years ago and is no longer fit for purpose. We are long overdue an update.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 5,000 workers to benefit from reduced hours with no loss&#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":[699,18,140,406],"class_list":["post-38973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-32-hour-week","tag-economics","tag-paul","tag-uk","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38973","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=38973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38975,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38973\/revisions\/38975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}