Joe Ryle × Will Stronge
Summary
Joe Ryle and Will Stronge are prominent allied advocates for the four-day working week in the UK, operating from different but complementary organisations — Ryle as campaign officer/director of the 4 Day Week Campaign (later 4 Day Week Foundation), and Stronge as director of research/director/chief executive at the think tank Autonomy. They appear repeatedly in the same articles making aligned public statements in support of a shorter working week with no loss of pay. In Source 3, Ryle says ‘Covid-19 has thrown the world of work totally up in the air and we must take this opportunity to move away from the outdated and old ways of working,’ while Stronge says ‘For the large majority of firms, reducing working hours is an entirely realistic goal for the near future.’ In Source 5, Stronge is credited as co-author (with Kyle Lewis) of the book ‘Overtime: Why We Need A Shorter Working Week’, and both Ryle and Stronge are quoted responding to the results of the UK’s six-month four-day week trial. In Source 2, both are quoted in the same piece on a report by Autonomy about South Cambridgeshire District Council’s four-day week trial, with Stronge saying ‘the four-day week is not a risky experiment or a luxury’ and Ryle calling for expansion of council trials. Their organisations have collaborated on research and campaigning around the four-day week.
Provenance
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