4-day workweek trial threatened with funding cuts by U.K. lawmakers opposed ‘regardless of what the data is saying,’ local leader says

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Local U.K. governments face losing funding from lawmakers if they trial a four-day workweek, but a defiant council leading the experiment is adamant it is just as productive under its new working pattern.

South Cambridgeshire Council, a local authority north of London, has been in a lengthy battle with members of the U.K.’s Conservative government over its four-day week pilot, which has received fierce resistance since launching earlier this year.