IMAGINE a scenario in the future where everyone gets paid a full-time wage to do absolutely no work at all.

It sounds great, but would probably get a bit boring after a while – there is only so much time you can spend on a beach reading, playing golf or abseiling down a very tall building while blindfolded.

I do the latter of those every weekend and it is an absolute hoot, I can tell you.

Work is one of those things that the vast majority of us do, and if we think about it long enough then we would probably admit that we actually enjoy our jobs.

Sometimes anyway.

Working can be very stressful of course, but overall it is undeniable that being employed is much better for your health and wellbeing than being on the dole.

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But working less for the same money is a concept that we would probably all sign up for if we got the chance.

The Scottish Greens are currently pushing for the introduction of a four-day working week in Scotland.

The party says that shifting to a four-day week with no loss of pay could transform millions of lives and improve workers’ right.

Now the Greens are urging employers to support the 4ugust initiative by by trialling a four-day work week this month for their workers.

There is a precedent for this as pilots of the four-day working week in Valencia increased productivity, improved the physical and mental health of workers, and reduced CO2 emissions as a result of fewer cars being on the road.

Like the good citizens that they undoubtedly are, the Greens have themselves already adopted a four-day working week for party and parliamentary office staff, with positive results.

Better work-life balance, less stress, and more control over their lives are just some of the benefits that staff have reported.

I bet nobody reading this knew that fact, and we’re all now wondering how we haven’t noticed the lack of Greens stuff on the fifth day.

Of course, the Greens can do this as all their Holyrood workers will be paid for out of the public purse.

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Other public sectors will also, no doubt, soon get to enjoy the benefits too. But the idea, like so many of the Greens policies, is not really worth the recycled paper it is written on.

How would a four-day week work at the sharp end of NHS care, for example? The health service is already chronically under-staffed and at breaking point so throwing in an extra day off for doctors and nurses will tip it over the edge.

Who’s wellbeing benefits from that is not obvious but it’s not patients, that’s for sure. Also, how could the already under-staffed emergency services cope too if rotas were reduced.

Then there is the small matter of private sector employees, who, to be fair, are not much liked by the Greens as it is a party that opposes economic growth and capitalism in general.

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Most private sector workers are on an agreed contract of around 40 hours a week which are spread over five working days.

Reducing that to four would mean working longer hours, resulting in more stress and make a decent work-life balance highly unlikely.

Four-day working weeks are great if you are in a job that allows it but the majority of people are not. It’s an idea that should be consigned to the bin – a recycling one, of course.