A redistribution of working time is one of those ideas that circles endlessly around, much talked about and only rarely applied. There’s a real history to the idea of reduced working hours as a form of progress, something that’s been fought for in the past, and then more or less abandoned with the advent of the 9-5 with a two day weekend.
As Katherine Trebeck and I argue in our book The Economics of Arrival, reduced working hours are exactly the kind of progress that advanced economies should pursue. It has multiple benefits, would make a real difference to people’s quality of life, and it can be acheived with or without more economic growth.
I’ll say more about this next week, but today I wanted to post this video from 4dayweek.co.uk. It’s a coalition-run campaign that is currently capitalising on renewed interest in work time as a result of Covid-19. A number of companies have been more or less forced into reduced working arrangements, and there will be a lot more case studies to highlight at the end of the pandemic than there were before. The breakthrough for the 4 day week may not be far away.
The Earthbound Report 
No Campaign then?
Sorry, I meant – No online campaign to add one’s name to? Nothing found on their website from your link.
How will this fare with those who established an education system designed to raise an army of assembly-line workers? (I’ll answer my own question–not good, of course.)
But seriously, this was a bit of a shock to me when I moved to the West. Many years ago, back in the developing world, I was able to work on flexi-time, even from home–only to find out I couldn’t negotiate for something similar here.