Just when you thought you'd heard it all, along comes the Labour bigwigs backing an absolutely loony-tunes proposal for a ten hour working week.
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Doesn't it sound so attractive, no-one will work more than ten hours a week and we can save the environment from the climate emergency and have a much better work-life balance in the process.
The numbers in the report by Philipp Frey for Autonomy all crunch out right in the spread sheets and the formulas all add up.
What it seems to be saying is that, if the country is economically much more idle then we can save the planet and everything will be great.
There you are, bash the bosses, have more free time and save the environment all in one fell swoop!
So, what's not to like?
Well, the first one is that it would also mean a reduction of about 75% in wages.
Adopting such a policy would require a massive increase in the state and I mean massive, with an equally massive increase in taxes taken out of those vastly reduced salaries to pay for it.
And it would in my estimation, actually force the average person to work far harder and for far longer as a result.
Now, the latest stats from the ONS show that the average working week for a full time worker in February this year was 37.5 hours. So the advocates of this idea want to reduce that by about 73%.
Anyway, let's get down to the basics.
I'll start off by asking how much will the average child learn in a school that's only open ten hours a week?
Ah! You'll say, that would have to be different. So, either teache..
