Four-day work week could be racist
A shorter work week could be racist because they discriminate against “frontline” public sector workforces that operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The report did not give examples of the types of workers who would be negatively impacted. Costs faced by workers having to partake in more leisure activities on their additional day off, as well as the impact on energy bills of having to heat homes during time normally spent at work, were also put forward as risks of racism
