If you own shares, you’ll know it’s pointless voting at shareholder meetings as it’s only the big fund managers who own big chunks of companies that can make things happen. It seems that, although they’re launching green funds left, right and centre and telling us that the future’s ethical, they’re sticking with their vested interests when it comes to changing how the bigger, badder companies work. How those wheels within wheels work is difficult to know, and I’m sure they’d say they’re protecting their clients (often your) interests. But there are definitely some forked tongues at work. I’d say.
“Advice firm Almond Financial moves to four-day working week”
The Four Day Week was much discussed and trailed post-COVID, when remote-working looked likely to end strap-hanging commutes for good and laptops on the kitchen table were to become the ’new norm’.