Another day, another policy leak. This morning government proposals to shorten the working week have made their way into the papers. According to initial reports, the policy – championed by Deputy PM and former trade union official Angela Rayner – will give workers more power to “compress” their hours, meaning longer days Monday to Thursday in exchange for a three-day weekend starting Friday.
And so an old sore is opened between Britons who can reasonably claim to be working while they sit on their couch and those who can’t. The divide, between the laptop class and the rest, has always been there – before computers these distinct groups were euphemistically called “white-collar” and “blue-collar” workers.
