Leo Varadkar says the pandemic has forced a rethink and re-evaluation of how people workThe government is to research the costs and benefits of a four-day working week over the summer. Leo Varadkar, the tanaiste, said that the Covid-19 pandemic had “caused us to rethink and re-evaluate how we work”. SponsoredHe said it had shown that huge numbers of people can be just as productive while working at home rather than having to commute to the office every day. Varadkar said the government wanted to discover more about how people can keep “some of the gains” that have been made in terms of “less commuting and more family time”. Responding to a parliamentary question from Róisín Shortall, the co-leader of the Social Democrats, Varadkar said: “Together with the department of environment, climate and communications, my department (enterprise, trade and

Source: The Times July 29, 2021 23:02 UTC