The Autonomy Institute is hiring! 🚨
We're looking for a new Consultant to join our growing team, delivering shorter working weeks for organisations of all kinds 🕙
Deadline: Monday 20th January
More info below 👇
Really pleased to announce today our new @4dayweek.bsky.social Pilot Programme for local councils, building on the success of South Cambridgeshire District Council's trial and the government's new approach of giving councils more autonomy over workforce management
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Today, the question arises: Does Labour have the vision and courage to renew the welfare state for the 21st century?
Our Basic Income Lead, Cleo Goodman writing in OpenDemocracy 👇
To add to this, back in 2021 David Frayne and Max Maher put together a pretty comprehensive review of the literature on the link (or lack of it!...) between jobs and wellbeing for @autonomy-institute.bsky.social
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Iceland’s shorter working week isn’t just about fewer hours. It’s about less stress, more time with loved ones, and a happier society 🕒
María Hjálmtýsdóttir on how reduced working time has changed her life 👇
📊 During Covid, UK media overwhelmingly focused on male-dominated gig work like driving & delivery — neglecting care work and other feminised parts of the on-demand economy
Findings from our recent report suggest we need to rethink how we frame the gig economy! 🚴♂️🚕
Silly I know but I’ve penned an ode- or poem if you will- to my new favourite app, bluesky. Be kind in your judgement I beseech you my liege!. lol 🪶
This will be great, would add (not news to you, but potentially good for followers looking at this) that the @instituteforgov.bsky.social "ministers reflect" series has some great bits of insight from interviews with devolved ministers
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There's little doubt that Iceland's experimentation has helped encourage public sector trials elsewhere in Europe – from Spain to Scotland (where we've been helping the devolved government run a reduced hours pilot)
Other UK governments... we're looking at you
This build on our 2021 report, which really kicked off a global conversation on shorter working hours, and explored the story of how Iceland ended up with a shorter working week as a 'new normal'
in short: trade unions and brave public sector innovation
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Here's our most recent report, released last month & co-authored by me and Guðmundur, looking at data covering 2021-22
We found uptake had spread wide across the economy: more than half (59%) of workers had been offered reduced working hours in the past two years
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Been a privilege to work with colleagues in Iceland to share data from the country's widespread shift to a shorter working week, as featured in recent @autonomy-institute.bsky.social research 🇮🇸
Always amazing to read first-hand account of how reduced working time changes lives 👇
Given that Asghar can't be unaware of the quite horrific stuff Lee Waters has been on the receiving end of recently, this is quite a bit past grossly insensitive
Although, I should think in this instance, it does lie fairly straightforwardly in Williams' expansive intellectual generosity
Quite wonderful demonstration of how, the greater the polite restraint shown by a reviewer quite fairly entitled to savage the object at hand, the more devastating the effect.
The Rowan Williams review of the new Peterson book is wonderful for its incredibly understated panning of it:
Writing in the Big Issue, our Head of Operations Jack Kellam argues that how the government pursues a 'Right to Switch Off' will be a litmus test for its wider package of workers' rights👇
Can we get the carynx over for the rugby this weekend?
