The Four Day Week Party

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Council Post: The Future Of Work Is The Liquid Workforce

Are you ready to take advantage of the opportunities that lie ahead in the future of work?

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Should your employer pay your bills if you work from home?

As a government agency stops funding home workers’ internet, we look at what the law says and what happens in practice

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The Guardian view on the gig economy: stop making burnout a lifestyle | Editorial

Editorial: Over the holiday period the Guardian’s leader column examines the challenges of the future by fathoming out the present. Today we look at how platform capitalism makes us less human

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Work it! Can you learn to love the job you have?

We can’t all follow our passion. But taking a few simple steps can make a huge difference to your happiness – and your performance in the office

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Will Finland introduce a four-day week? Is it the secret of happiness?

Reduced working hours can boost productivity and cut carbon emissions. Here’s the evidence behind the idea

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Covid-19 could cause permanent shift towards home working

Tech firms will benefit, but some companies could find employees don’t want to return to the office

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Working from home has a troubled history. Coronavirus is exposing its flaws again | Helen McCarthy

During the UK’s lockdown, home working has soared. But struggles with childcare and inferior pay and conditions aren’t new , says the historian and author Helen McCarthy

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Where the Five-Day Workweek Came From

It's a relatively new invention—is it time to shave another day off?

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Coronavirus has exposed the reality of a world without work | Josh Cohen

This pandemic is throwing into stark relief a treacherous fact: we depend on employment, both for survival and a sense of self, says psychoanalyst Josh Cohen

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Covid-19 could cause permanent shift towards home working

Tech firms will benefit, but some companies could find employees don’t want to return to the office

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It’s time to put happiness and wellbeing on the political agenda | Suzanne Moore

It may be fraudulent, but the Tories are riding a wave of post-election optimism. Labour needs to shake off its miserablism, says Guardian columnist Suzanne Moore

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UK productivity slowdown worst since Industrial Revolution – study

Researchers found decline from the pre-2008 growth trends almost four times that of 1930s

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The Guardian view on Labour’s worker ownership plans: power to the people | Editorial

Editorial: Labour can outflank the Tories by rethinking the firm and who controls its surplus rather than just nationalising it

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Should your employer pay your bills if you work from home?

As a government agency stops funding home workers’ internet, we look at what the law says and what happens in practice

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Daniel Susskind: ‘Automation of jobs is one of the greatest questions of our time’

Oxford economist Daniel Susskind talks about the challenges of a society in which all jobs have been automated

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Will Finland introduce a four-day week? Is it the secret of happiness?

Reduced working hours can boost productivity and cut carbon emissions. Here’s the evidence behind the idea

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Work it! Can you learn to love the job you have?

We can’t all follow our passion. But taking a few simple steps can make a huge difference to your happiness – and your performance in the office