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This is pretty great, but I hope they use it to investigate whether it makes workers 20% more productive rather than as a way to possibly justify eliminating 20% of their staff. The only real news I've seen relating to Glasgow City Council recently [0] suggests they're relatively progressive so hopefully it's the former.

[0] - https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/20183796.queens-jubilee-...

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This is explained in the article. The intent is to evaluate 100:80:100, which is 100% pay for 80% of the hours in return for a commitment to maintain 100% productivity.

Though of course since it's the government commitment to 100% of previous productivity probably not that difficult even with a 2 day work week..

That seems pretty unlikely to happen. I guess they can actually measure productivity for some council activities (e.g. rate of processing planning applications) so we should get some interesting data.

I wonder how they hope to avoid the "guys if we all work really hard for this short study we get Fridays off forever!" effect.

Imagine if they did both and cut taxes, thus leaving people with more money to spend on things that create jobs…

government entities only have deficit

if they have any spare funds, they will find a way to spend them

it's wonderful to not be bound by the profitability rigidities

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