It’s local election day for most of the country – though not in South Cambridgeshire. The Lib Dem led District Council there has been in the news a lot this week but not for the right reasons. Council bosses there have just hailed the ‘overwhelmingly positive’ results of their four-day working week trial and are now set to extend it for a further twelve months. Nice life for some eh?
The pilot scheme was launched in January and gives staff the chance to take either Mondays or Fridays off on the assumption that they will work ‘more productively for the remaining days.’ And this week the Daily Mail revealed that Liz Watts, the chief executive, has been working on a PhD thesis about the effects of a four-day working week, and is now facing calls to step down over a potential conflict of interest.
Now Steerpike has found out just how much Watts is earning for all of this: a whopping six-figure sum.
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