{"id":3256,"date":"2026-04-07T01:13:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T01:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=3256"},"modified":"2026-04-07T01:13:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T01:13:42","slug":"scottish-greens-step-up-call-for-four-day-week-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=3256","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Greens step up call for four-day week \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <\/p>\n<p>Gillian Mackay with co-leader Ross Greer (DB Media Services)<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Scottish Greens want to extend the four-day week to more workers, arguing the future of Scotland\u2019s work must be about improving the quality of life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It says that a shorter working week eases the pressure on overstretched mental health services, by\u00a0reducing stress for workers, resulting in fewer sick days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Scottish Greens co-leader, Gillian Mackay said:\u00a0\u201cToo many people feel trapped in a system where life revolves around work. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cOur economy has been built on a broken idea that people exist to work, instead of work existing to support people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cThe Scottish Greens believe that work should give us the means to live, not take over our lives entirely. That\u2019s why we are committed to rolling out the four-day work week across as much of Scotland\u2019s public sector as possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cA four-day week \u2013 without loss of pay \u2013 would transform how we work, helping people spend more time with their families, support their communities and live fuller, happier lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cWe\u2019ve\u00a0already seen the benefits it has through recent successful trials,\u00a0and we want to build on them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Interview: Ross Greer<\/p>\n<p>           \t            #Scottish #Greens #step #call #fourday #week #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gillian Mackay with co-leader Ross Greer (DB Media Services) The Scottish Greens want to extend&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[272,124,306,7369,6669,7370,6724,3477,7032,7371,1188,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}