Can anyone explain how a 4 day week will work ? From what I understand there will be no loss in earnings for anyone going from 5 days to 4 days (hurrah for the workers) but what will this cost businesses who need to operate 5, 6 or 7 days a week ? If an office goes to a four day week will that imply no one works Friday's so businesses will have issues getting things to happen five days a week (looking at how government departments that offer working from home a couple of days a week, very few people go into the office on a Friday, so I can see preference for Friday's as the day off a week) It's a great policy for workers but the question is what impact will it have on business and if production costs rise, what effect will it have on costs in the shops ? Will it also have an impact on getting hold of council officers (for example) as there are less staff in every day, or to counter it will local authorities need a 25% rise in funding to cover the cost of extra staff to provide services five days a week ? Can someone make sense of it all for me (please ) ?