What a surprise. South Cambridgeshire District Council has declared its controversial experiment with a four day week – which put council staff on a 32 hour rather than 40-hour week with no loss of pay – a tremendous success. The council, whose chief executive Liz Watts was revealed last year to be doing a doctorate on the subject of the four day week as well as her day job, has published the results of a study by the Universities of Salford and Cambridge which claims that the council’s performance improved on 11 measures during the trial period compared with prior...
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