With heartfelt apologies to Reg Smythe, Goldsmith & Garnett and Go Comics, for blatantly knicking their cominc strip, without even the courtesy to ask
With heartfelt apologies to Reg Smythe, Goldsmith & Garnett and Go Comics, for blatantly knicking their cominc strip, without even the courtesy to ask
In five billion years the Sun will expand into a red giant 100 times larger than now
I could never be a journalist. It would never occur to me to use words such as terrifying and gruesome for an event predicted to occur in about five billion years.
Humans will be long gone, everything we have ever built will be long gone and Net Zero won't even be a memory of a memory. Even the language will have vanished, even the BBC licence fee will have come to an inglorious end - probably.
And do you know who does like us? People who believe in a free press. People who believe that the truth should be available to everyone. And people who recognise the importance of challenging those in positions of power and influence. Does that sound like you?
Four-day week made permanent for most UK firms in world’s biggest trial
Most of the UK companies that took part in the world’s biggest ever four-day working week trial have made the policy permanent, research shows.
The report’s author, Juliet Schor, professor of sociology at Boston College, said the results showed “real and long lasting” effects. “Physical and mental health, and work-life balance are significantly better than at six months. Burnout and life satisfaction improvements held steady,” she said.
But Matthew Percival, a director at the Confederation of Business and Industry, said the four-day week was not a “one size fits all answer” and would be “unlikely to pay for itself in many industries”.
This month, the Scottish government launched a four-day working week trial for some public services. Autonomy is calling for the Westminster government to introduce policies that would enable its wider take-up, including giving workers the right to request a four-day week with no loss of pay, a public sector trial, and funding to support the shift in the private sector.
The usual claim here is that productivity goes up with the extra day off. But as we don’t – can’t – measure bureaucrat efficiency that’s not a useful argument for them, is it?