4 day week?

[finleysmaid]

so if you have been watching the news this morning there have been discussions about going to a 4 day working week......my immediate thought …"what would this do to an already struggling childcare industry?"

How do you think your setting would cope with this?

[Inge]

Cannot see it happening, expecting the company to pay the same for 4 days work when they could get 5 is asking a lot.

It would be possible but the mindset is to get as much work out of employees as they can and many already expect more than 5 days work , what with work out of hours evenings and weekends.  

This also would not work for many jobs, cannot get more productivity out of a person who works set shifts for a reason, childcare, shop work,bus drivers, and many other jobs would need more employees to cover , and would cost too much to the company. 

Nice idea but impractical on so many levels

[sunnyday]

5 hours ago, finleysmaid said:

so if you have been watching the news this morning there have been discussions about going to a 4 day working week......my immediate thought …"what would this do to an already struggling childcare industry?"

How do you think your setting would cope with this?

I'm 'ahead of the game' - that's what I offer now

For full day care settings it would not be workable in my humble