{"id":79581,"date":"2025-01-13T08:38:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T08:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=79581"},"modified":"2025-01-13T08:38:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T08:38:01","slug":"4-5-days-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/01\/13\/4-5-days-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"4.5 days a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am well aware there is a movement now arguing we need to work four days a week.<\/p>\n<p>I took Friday afternoon off last week, and it transformed the weekend into something much more valuable. I might have to try that again.<\/p>\n<p>And because I knew this was my plan I did work hard to clear a lot of stuff to let it happen. I may not have increased my productivity, but I did concentrate on what was most important. That was of merit.<\/p>\n<p>This experience is not a representative sample of anything. But it has made me wonder whether I do have better ways of organising my work available to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am well aware there is a movement now arguing we need to work four days a week. I took Friday afternoon off last week,<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/01\/13\/4-5-days-a-week\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79582,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79581\/revisions\/79582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}