From one of their articles on this topic, from June 2022:
"More than 3,300 workers at 70 UK companies, ranging from a local chippy to large financial firms, start working a four-day week from Monday with no loss of pay in the world’s biggest trial of the new working pattern."[0]
"The trial is based on the 100:80:100 model – 100% of pay for 80% of the time, in exchange for a commitment to maintain 100% productivity"
Q: How can you 'maintain 100% productivity' when you're not there 20% of the time?
Like I already said, no actual discussion on how this can [possibly] work in practice at any company. They certainly don't say whether the chippy is going to be closed every Friday when all the previously "full time" staff are having their additional day off...
The issue suits someone's agenda, though, or why would they be pushing it so hard?
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jun/06/thousands-w...
That's a question for the 4 Day Week Campaign, not for the Guardian, and the research they publish and the people who peer-review it. The Guardian are reporting what other people think and say, not thinking it or saying it themselves.
Umm ... I don't think we get to give media outlets a free pass like that. Reporters used to ask these questions and get answers before they published.
Gushingly positive reporting about a topic that your reporters and/or your readership agree with is almost certainly part of the reason that only 25% of people trust journalists[0]. I suppose that's marginally more than than trust politicians (21%)... :)
"[The Guardian has] a slight to moderate liberal bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by appeals to emotion or stereotypes) to favor liberal causes. These sources are generally trustworthy for information but may require further investigation [..]
Overall, we rate The Guardian Left-Center biased based on story selection that moderately favors the left and Mixed for factual reporting due to numerous failed fact checks over the last five years."
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-guardian/
I'd never come across mediabiasfactcheck.com until a friend recently referred me to it over a source that I'd quoted which he claimed was biased :)
Full disclosure: I grew up in a household where The Guardian was on the breakfast table every day, and I still call up theguardian.com every morning. Either it's changed, or I've changed :(
[0] https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/politicians-are-still-trusted-le...
