Lab, a digital agency, has liberated the way people work, by reducing length of the working week. The trial was the idea of Jonny Tooze, Lab's founder and managing director, as he spent a May bank holiday in a retreat in 2017 on the Isle of Wight. He then decided it was time for him to look at the liberating potential of automation, wrote The Sunday Times.
35 year old Saumya Pant, who is a part of the experiement, has been shortlisted for the Mrs India UK 2019, while she works for Lab.
Tooze told the newspaper, that there was widespread scepticism in September when Frances O'Grady general secretary of the TUC said unions had helped to create two day weekend, and the next aim was four day.
But Tooze thinks it's inevitable. He added, “We are automating things which means people will lose their jobs, he said, He felt personally responsible because Lab is immersed in robotisation.
"Within few decades we will have an incredibly developed technological workplace and unless you are a technologist, you wont reallt have a place in the work sphere.”
He moved his company from 37.5 hour week to 36 hours over four days, with some taking Monday off or Friday off. Tooze also believes that as work increasingly involves interacting with computers, it is important for humanity- especially as it enables unadulterated time when we can switch off and think for ourselves.
