For Those Thirty and Up

[Benton]

(02-15-2016, 10:04 PM)jfkbengals Wrote: I recall reading last year that many companies in one of the nordic countries (Sweden?) are experimenting with employees being limited to working 5 days at 6 hours each.  If I remember correctly, they early results were very promising.  Hopefully it can grab hold here in the States.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/17/efficiency-up-turnover-down-sweden-experiments-with-six-hour-working-day

Quote:Despite the positive signs, the experiment is likely to end next year – the centre-left coalition on Gothenburg council has lost its majority, and the Conservatives and Liberals are firmly opposed to reduced working hours. The trial is costing about 8m Swedish krona (£630,000) a year, according to the Liberal party. “It’s like living in a world where it is raining money from the sky,” according to one Conservative councillor. The Liberal party declined an invitation to comment for this article.

I doubt it will catch on here where the idea is to make work life more comfortable, justifying it around longer hours. France went to a 35 hours work week for their classification of full-time. That was a while back. How that's effected their workers or economy, no idea.