This is the best summary I could come up with:
LONDON, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Britain on Thursday told local government councils in England to end any trials of a four-day working week for their employees, saying the idea does not offer taxpayers good value for money.
The scheme, where staff have their working hours cut by 20% while keeping their existing salary, has been adopted by some businesses which argue it improves work-life balance without damaging productivity.
“The government is being crystal clear that it does not support the adoption of the four-day working week within the local government sector,” Britain’s minister for local government Lee Rowley said in a statement.
"Local authorities that are considering adopting it should not do so.
Those who have adopted it already should end those practice immediately."
The government said it supported the right of individual employees to request flexible working, such as changes to their hours or location of work, but “removing 20% of a local authority’s potential capacity does not offer value for money for residents”.
The original article contains 165 words, the summary contains 165 words. Saved 0%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Fucking morons in ivory towers. Complaining about removing 20% of capacity while simultaneously ignoring the fact that productivity is at running at 60% for the 5 day week. Remove a day and work at 80% and there’s still room for improvement in capacity but these leeches have never worked a real day in their lives to understand that
At no point of the indicator that they understand the core point.
The entire point is it doesn’t affect productivity. These guys really are melons.
I used to work in government and the amount of sitting around we did was ridiculous. It was definitely more than 20% I’ll tell you that. We used to spend ages waiting for department A to do their job, so department B could do their jobs, so we could do our job. The actual task would only take maybe 5% of the time already allocated but we had to wait.
I love this bot, it’s always so honest. Like it would be really easy for the dev to put in a threshold for posting, like “if compression < 20%, skip post”. But nope, here it is basking naked, in all its glory, good or bad.
I once saw it post a negative savings – was due to an html entity hiding throughout the article that got counted as one char in the original, but as multiple in the summary.
To be fair, I care less about the reduction in length and more about not having to click on an ad infested site.
