GPT-4 (DAY WEEK): GREAT BRITAIN EDITION - HOW THE LATEST AI TECHNOLOGY CAN LEAD TO A NATION OF SHORTER HOURS, WITHOUT REDUCTIONS IN LIVELIHOODS OR PRODUCTIVITY

Local authorities with the highest proportion of workers that could work four-day weeks within the next decade include: City of London Kensington and Chelsea Westminster Elmbridge Richmond upon Thames Wandsworth St Albans Wokingham All of these local authorities hold the potential for 38% or more of their workforces to move to a four-day week using AI augmentation over the next decade. [...] Whilst many have focused on the pessimistic - and often deterministic - outlook of job losses and degradation, the prospect of improved productivity for huge swathes of the workforce also points to an alternative, more equitable solution: shorter working weeks for all and a four-day week horizon. [...] This dataset was then updated with long-term employment projections for Great Britain, drawing on data from the Department of Education and analyses by the Warwick Institute for Employment Research and Cambridge Econometrics in 2023.8 Utilising ASPECTT, the occupation database created by Autonomy, we matched the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) codes for UK occupations with the Artificia. [...] These ‘four- day week boroughs’ include: The City of London Tower Hamlets Islington Southwark Richmond Camden Wandsworth The City of London is the only local authority in the UK where over 50% of the workforce could have an AI-led four-day week by 2033 (see Figures 5 and 6) Autonomy GPT-4(day week): Great Britain edition 18 FIGURES Below we show two maps, marking two different productivity scenari. [...] London borough Autonomy GPT-4(day week): Great Britain edition 23 LONDON’S ‘FOUR-DAY WEEK’ LOCAL AUTHORITIES CONTINUED Figure 6: the local authorities within London with the largest shares of the labour force that will be eligible for an AI-driven four-day week over the next decade (top) and those with the lowest potential (bottom).