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Four-Day Week

This survey was open for responses from 9am on Monday 27 January to 11:59pm on Sunday 23 March.

So you know what to expect, this consultation contains four sections.

These are:

  • Questions about you
  • For residents, you will answer questions about your experiences of our services during the four-day week. Residents will have up to 13 services to rate. You will only rate services you say have received from us.
  • If you're from a businesses, community or voluntary group, you will also receive questions about your experiences of our services during the four-day week. Businesses, community and voluntary groups will have up to 10 services to rate. You will only rate services you say you have received from us.
  • Comments about the four-day week
  • Thank you and what happens next

The length of the consultation depends on how many services you say you have received from us since 1 January 2023. If you have received a couple of services from us, it will likely take around five minutes. However, if you have received many services from us and wish to rate them all, and provided detailed comments, the consultation will of course take longer to complete

Phases

Phases overview
Phase 1: Up to this point
Phase 2: Consultation Active
Phase 3: The decision-making process

Phase 3: The decision-making process

24 March 2025 - No end date

This consultation closed on Sunday 23 March.

Thank you to everyone who responded to the consultation. Your responses were collated and independently analysed by market research company DJS research. You can find a full breakdown of the results in the Public Consultation Report.

The latest performance reports, details from the public consultation, insights from the latest staff health and wellbeing survey and other data were all discussed at the public Full Council meeting on Thursday 17 July 2025, when District Councillors voted to become a permanent four-day week employer.

As South Cambridgeshire District Council is the employing authority of two services which it shares with Cambridge City Council – Greater Cambridge Shared Planning and Greater Cambridge Shared Waste – these shared service colleagues have also been working a Four-Day Week. On Thursday 24 July, Cambridge City Council also voted all our shared services to continue with the Four-Day Week.