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Wait until you hear how much it costs a business to get 3 directors around a table for 20 minutes.
This costs lots, but wait until you hear how many businesses don't have 3 directors, or if they do they're already down the pub round a table together every Friday.
I think you both have decent points but from different experiences of employment and employers.
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I'm not convinced by this tbh. Wait until you hear how much it costs a business to get 3 directors around a table for 20 minutes. Point being organisational level things like employment modes are more difficult to change than just starting to offer different ones. They feed into structural, operational things like rotas, scheduling, resourcing, and all come with administrative overheads. To state otherwise seems naive.
Any point claiming that businesses will be using zero hours as some sort of stick to beat the labour market back with also seems a bit moot until we know more about planned reform. It's a key bit of policy for Starmer's Labour. They said they will regulate that option out of existence (if they dont back out or water it down. Who knows)
If they dont, I'm not sure that actually changes much. My reading of it is that most industries that would be most likely be able to move to exploitative zero hour modes already have or are already on that trajectory.