Council Edited Independent Report Praising Four-Day Working Week Trial Claims Lobby Group

Students walk through Cambridge University in Cambridge,England, on March 14, 2018.Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images

Emails have surfaced indicating that an independent study that praised a four-day working week was subject to editing by the very council it examined, according to the TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA).

Cambridge University’s Bennett Institute for Public Policy was selected to impartially review data from an initial three-month trial of the Lib Dem-run South Cambridgeshire District Council’s new four-day working schedule.