Argument Map — Keeping the Four-Day Week
Pro and con structure for a retail bank deciding whether to make its 34-hour four-day week permanent, with rebuttals nested under the coverage and fatigue objections.
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title "Should the bank keep the four-day week permanently?"
claim C "The bank should make the 34-hour four-day week permanent."
support S1 "Voluntary attrition halved in the trial year." for C
support S2 "Applications per vacancy rose fivefold." for C
support S3 "Customer satisfaction was flat, not worse." for C
object O1 "Friday cover for business customers thinned out." against C
object O2 "Compressed days raised self-reported fatigue." against C
object O3 "Trial results are confounded by a hiring freeze." against C
support S4 "A rotating Friday duty team restored cover." for O1
object O4 "The duty rota puts a tenth of staff back on five days." against S4
support S5 "Meeting-free Wednesdays cut the compressed-day load." for O2
support S6 "A control region ran the old week for comparison." for O3