Well to be fair Glasgow City Council will still be able to collect the same amount of council tax regardless of how well the provide services. It's easy to do a four day week if there is no relation between performance and income.

Why is paying people for working a day less great? I think most residents would prefer to see their bins emptied more frequently than have council workers get a day off while being paid for it.

https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgows-rat-problem-made...

There is no correlation between those things. The problems of GCC are mainly due to underfunding.

> Underfunding

> Staff have little enough work to do that they can reduce their work week by 20%

Overstaffing / underfunding, two sides of the same coin.

Not that great. UK is facing a cost of living crisis caused by too much government spending and in particular governments paying people to not work.

There's a second issue because it's Glasgow. For Scotland to become viably independent it needs to wean itself off English subsidies. This sort of thing is the opposite and reinforces the general impression that the Scots aren't serious about independence. They can't afford even their current levels of spending on their own. Really is not affordable even with the rest of the UK involved, but especially not alone.

Lots of 4 day week companies without a 20% pay cut:

https://4dayweek.io/companies