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Cambridgeshire trial found improved performance and reduced turnover, as TfL plans to give tube drivers optionCouncils in England will have the right to adopt a four-day working week after the government dropped concerns raised by the Conservatives when they were in power.For more than a year, South Cambridgeshire district council has defied Conservative opposition to its policy to introduce a four-day working week, after a controversial 15-month trial indicated in March that the performance of its workers mostly improved or remained the same, while the council simultaneously saved more than £370,000 in a year.Staff turnover fell by 39%, helping save £371,500 in a year, mostly on agency staff costs.Regular household planning applications were decided about a week and a half earlier.Approximately 15% more major planning application decisions were completed within the correct timescale.The time taken to process changes to housing benefit and council tax benefit claims fell. Continue reading…
Cambridgeshire trial found improved performance and reduced turnover, as TfL plans to give tube drivers option
Councils in England will have the right to adopt a four-day working week after the government dropped concerns raised by the Conservatives when they were in power.
For more than a year, South Cambridgeshire district council has defied Conservative opposition to its policy to introduce a four-day working week, after a controversial 15-month trial indicated in March that the performance of its workers mostly improved or remained the same, while the council simultaneously saved more than £370,000 in a year.
Staff turnover fell by 39%, helping save £371,500 in a year, mostly on agency staff costs.
Regular household planning applications were decided about a week and a half earlier.
Approximately 15% more major planning application decisions were completed within the correct timescale.
The time taken to process changes to housing benefit and council tax benefit claims fell.
