Iceland shortened the working week without reducing pay, while Gothenburg’s six-hour care trial cost about 12 million kronor | Scandinavia Standard
https://www.scandinaviastandard.com/g-work-smarter-not-harder-iceland-sweden-trials/
https://www.scandinaviastandard.com/g-work-smarter-not-harder-iceland-sweden-trials/
4 Comments
B0rax@feddit.org · 28 pts · 35d
TLDR: it works. But if you need to cover 24h in a day (care, hospital, etc) you will need more people.
But: most jobs don’t have to cover 24h.
h4mi@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 35d
I firmly believe that most office jobs could be done in 6 hours/day with no noticable difference in productivity. Stagger the hours between workers to fill up the required hours if necessary. Let morning people start earlier and let me sleep.
CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 35d
Last time I worked in an office, I was there 8,75 hours a day, 0,75 hours were break, I was out on a smoke break for another hour (in total) and chatting with coworkers in the kitchen for another two. Still managed to get everything done and had some idle time where I researched stuff or ran tests etc.
Waterpumpee@lemmus.org · 8 pts · 35d
Meanwhile german chancelor wants everyone to work more hours to solve a worker shortness that doesnt exist amidst an AI driven labor shortage...